Embossed and painted paper and cardboard globe on wooden core, resting on a turned and blackened wooden base. The mobile globe is surrounded by a circle and four meridian quarter-circles linked to an equatorial table featuring the twelve signs of the Zodiac, the months and the cardinal points (accidents on the globe and circles), topped by a circle with an iron needle indicating the hours. Globe "d'après les observations astronomiques les plus justes et les plus récentes par le Sr Fortin, ingénieur mécanicien du Roy" of the earth as seen in 1774. Publisher's label "A Paris chez Delamarche, ingénieur géographe, Rue du foin, près celle de la Harpe au collège de Mtre Gervais. Avec privilèges corrigés en 1786". Late 18th or early 19th century. Height Height : 52 cm