Description
A 2 3/4-inch pocket globe after Moll C.1770
Entitled “A correct globe with the new discoveries”made up of twelve hand -coloured engraved gores
and two polar calottes, the equatorial graduated in degrees and hours,the meridien at 30 degrees West of Greenwich graduated in degrees.The ecliptic graduated in days of the houses zodiac with sigils, and the tracks of Cook’s 1760 voyage.Australia is named New Holland.
It is contained in a fish skin covered spherical wooden case, and the interior laid with two sets of
twelve hand coloured engraved celestial gores.It’s stamped “A correct globe with the news Constellations of Dr Halley & c.”
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Antiques Le Saint Georges
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