DELAMARCHE, Charles-François. BION, Nicholas (after) Celestial globe in which the fixed stars are placed as they are at present according to the latest observations of the most famous astronomers of this time. Paris Delamarche before 1805 12 copper engr. gores on a sphere, diam. 18 cm, hand-colored (very sl. rubbed). Supported in a graduated papier-mâché meridian ring with on top a small graduated hour ring with a metal pointer. Mounted in a papier-mâché horizon ring. Ebony baluster stand, overall height ca. 40 cm (with a few sm. wormholes). Rare French table top globe, produced by the most successful French entrepreneur in globemaking, Ch.-Fr. Delamarche (1740-1817), when his company was still housed in "Rue du Foin St. Jacques" which he left in 1805. Delamarche - known because of the takeover of the shops of many of his local competitors, i.e. D. Robert de Vaugondy, J. Fortin and J. Lattré - made use here of Nicholas Bion's (1652-1733) formerly published gores (copy BnF). Ref. The History of Cartography, Vol. 4, p. 569. - Not in Dekker, BnF (only the gores by N. Bion: GE D-12624), Globenmuseum Wien.