A FRENCH 7.5 INCH TERRESTRIAL 'COSMOGRAPHE' TABLE GLOBEMAISON DELEMARCHE AND CH. HENARD ET CIE, PARIS, LATE 19th CENTURYThe sphere applied with twelve coloured printed gores annotated with warm and cold currents to oceans, major topographical features to land masses, with oceans, islands, countries and principal cities labelled, also with tropics, equinoctial and the Equator printed with Roman hour numerals ing the Paris Meridian and divided into five minutes, the Southern Indian Ocean printed GLOBE, ADOPTE, PAR LE CONSEIL L'UNIVERSITE, Maison, DELAMARCHE, Paris, Rue Serpente 25, the sphere mounted on its axis over a metal disc applied with printed calendar inscribed CH. HENARD ET CIE, PARIS, COSMOGRAPHE, BREVETE S.G.D.G. FRANCE ET ETRANGER, on balter-turned ebonised upright with knurled knob for rotating the globe against a fixed star incorporating hand for the calendar scale and with adjtable axis arc passing over the sphere, on cavetto moulded disc-shaped foot.42cm (16.5ins) high, 23cm (9ins) wide.