A 2 3/4 Inch Pocket Globe after Moll C 1770 in fish-skin case

A 2 3/4 Inch Pocket Globe after Moll C 1770 in fish-skin case

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Pocket Globe after Moll C 1770 in fish-skin case

Circa

1770

Country of manufacture

UK and Ireland

Categories: Scientific, Globes & Orreries

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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ES Antiques Le Saint Georges

Antiques Le St Georges was established By G.Bruguière de Gorgot in 1981 in south of France and now in Barcelona since 2004 .
We are specialized in Antique scientific instruments: Globes and Planetaria, Microscopes, Sundials, Mathematical instruments and medical instruments.
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