Josiah Loring (1775 – ca. 1840) and Gilman Joslin, Loring’s Terrestrial Globe

Josiah Loring (1775 – ca. 1840) and Gilman Joslin Loring’s Terrestrial Globe Boston, manufactured by Gilman Joslin, revised by Roswell Park, 1851 Diameter 12 in.; Height 42 in.  The globe made up from two sets of 12 engraved globe gores, hand colored in outline with circular title cartouche and analemma. Brass meridian circle, original wooden papered horizon, mounted on its original elegant cast iron decorated tripod stand with original castors. Light discoloration of original varnish. Papered horizon slightly bubbled. A fine example of a mid-19th century American floor globe from the Boston school of globe making, with its original embellished cast iron stand. Loring was a Bostonian book seller who sold the globes of William Annin/ George Smith, adopting the European style of globe but with added information from Wilkes’ expedition. He introduced the more durable and stylish cast iron stand, a considerable advancement in American design. Following Loring’s death in 1840, Gilman Joslin