This extraordinary terrestrial globe, measuring an impressive 30-inches in diameter, was crafted by the firm W. & A.K. Johnston, Ltd, the first Great Britain firm to create a globe of this size. Amazingly, the surface area of a 30-inch globe is 625% larger than that of a more typical 12-inch globe. The beautiful, accurately detailed map is set within a fine tripod mahogany base. Globes of such grand scale were incredibly expensive to create and it proved to be much more cost effective to update one’s plates than to buy an entirely new globe. From Edinburgh, the Johnston firm emerged during the second half of the 19th-century as one of the foremost globe makers in all of Great Britain, overshadowing their London rivals.

52” high