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A Charles-Francois Delamarche table armillary sphere, French, circa 1835, image 1
A Charles-Francois Delamarche table armillary sphere, French, circa 1835, image 2
The Stephen Edell Collection of Pocket and Table Globes
Lot 165

A Charles-Francois Delamarche table armillary sphere,
French, circa 1835,

Instruments of Science and Technology
15 September 2021, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £3,825 inc. premium

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A Charles-Francois Delamarche table armillary sphere, French, circa 1835,

the armillary sphere with horizon ring with engraved paper ring printed with months, days, signs of the zodiac, and directions. Horizon ring with four supports, each support printed on both sides with latitude and longitude of major world cities, the meridian ring printed with the degrees of elevation of the poles, mounted within meridian ring are five armillary rings, one each for the Equator, Arctic, Antarctic, and Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer, the five rings surrounded by a band printed on both sides with the names of the zodiac as well as the months, mounted in the centre is a terrestrial globe, above which are suspended movable sun and moon discs on brass strips, hour ring above North pole, circumferences of rings painted red, on turned ebonised wood stand,
18in (46cm) high

Footnotes

Provenance:
The Stephen Edell Collection.

"The first person to direct the production of globes in France at the general public, and to succeed in this, was Charles François Delamarche (1740-1817) ... For use in armillary spheres, a special small terrestrial globe was made, measuring about 2 inches (5.5 cm) ... the meridian of the globe and the rings of the spheres were made, like the horizons, in wood or stiff board. The degrees are printed on paper and stuck on. A characteristic of Delamarche is that the narrow outer side of these rings is painted red" (Dekker Globes from the Western World p 63).

Charles François' globemaking business soon dominated the French globe making industry. His son Félix took over the business in 1817, continuing the high quality work of his father.

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