"A New American Thirteen Inch Terrestrial Globe, Exhibiting with the greatest possible Accuracy, The Positions of the Principal Known Places OF The Earth…down to The present Period: 1831" (New York: J. Wilson & Sons), 13 in. diameter, 18.5 high, with full brass meridian ring and horizon band with engraved paper calendar and zodiac, on a four-legged stained maple stand with cross stretchers

Globe 2: "Tan engraved gores over plaster on metal orb, probably copper, precision time arrow fastened to meridian at North Pole. Shows equinoctial colure, ecliptic, prevailing winds, analemma and the routes of numerous explorers. Stamped and machined brass full ring meridian in full mount table stand with engraved colored horizon ring scale. Hawaii called Sandwich Islands or Owyhee with notes on the death of Cook in 1779 and Hergest and two others in 1792. New Holland or Australasia not yet divided into provinces. In North America, Louisiana and Missouri are states but entire Northwest called Missouri Territory and Southwest called Internal Provinces. Title vignette and possibly the gores by D.W. Wilson and engraved by Balch, Rawdon & Co."--from internet description at 1-World Globes.com

"A New American Celestial Globe Containing the positions of nearly 5000 Stars, Clusters, Nebulae &c. …" (New York: J. Wilson & Sons), 13 in. diameter, 18.5 in. high, with full brass meridian ring and horizon band with engraved paper calendar and zodiac, on a four-legged stained maple stand with cross stretchers

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