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A rare late 18th-Century English 3-inch diameter terrestrial...

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Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 97

A rare late 18th-Century English 3-inch diameter terrestrial...

Schätzpreis
3.000 £ - 5.000 £
ca. 5.231 $ - 8.718 $
Zuschlagspreis:
7.200 £
ca. 12.554 $
Beschreibung:

A rare late 18th-Century English 3-inch diameter terrestrial pocket globe
A rare late 18th-Century English 3-inch diameter terrestrial pocket globe, A New GLOBE of the Earth by Dudley Adams J. Mynde Sc. made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores wth pinholes at the poles, the equatorial graduated 0-180°-0, the latitude scale at 135°W graduated 80°-0-80°, the ecliptic graduated in 12x 1-30° with sigils, the oceans showing the tracks of King, Cook and Anson, monsoons in the Indian Ocean and the antipodes of London, Antarctica with no land shown, the continents outlined and faintly shaded in green, red, yellow and orange and showing national boundaries in dotted outline, rivers, lakes, deserts and place names, Southern Africa showing COUNTRY of the CAFFRES and Country of the Hotentots , China showing the Great Wall, Australia labeled NEW HOLLAND with Tasmania as a peninsula, central South America labelled Amazons Country , North America with Colonies on the north-eastern seabord, no northern coastline and Sea 1772 within the Arctic Circle, in a spherical wooden fishskin-covered case, the interior laid with two sets of twelve engraved celestial half-gores laid to the celestial poles, with hand-coloured polar, tropic, equatorial and ecliptic circles, the last two graduated, meridians shown to the ecliptic pole, the colures passing (incorrectly) through the ecliptic poles, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures with the stars to various orders of magnitude (no key), the rims painted red, with two brass hooks ( one broken ) and eyes

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 97
Auktion:
Datum:
30.03.2006
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
30 March 2006, London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

A rare late 18th-Century English 3-inch diameter terrestrial pocket globe
A rare late 18th-Century English 3-inch diameter terrestrial pocket globe, A New GLOBE of the Earth by Dudley Adams J. Mynde Sc. made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores wth pinholes at the poles, the equatorial graduated 0-180°-0, the latitude scale at 135°W graduated 80°-0-80°, the ecliptic graduated in 12x 1-30° with sigils, the oceans showing the tracks of King, Cook and Anson, monsoons in the Indian Ocean and the antipodes of London, Antarctica with no land shown, the continents outlined and faintly shaded in green, red, yellow and orange and showing national boundaries in dotted outline, rivers, lakes, deserts and place names, Southern Africa showing COUNTRY of the CAFFRES and Country of the Hotentots , China showing the Great Wall, Australia labeled NEW HOLLAND with Tasmania as a peninsula, central South America labelled Amazons Country , North America with Colonies on the north-eastern seabord, no northern coastline and Sea 1772 within the Arctic Circle, in a spherical wooden fishskin-covered case, the interior laid with two sets of twelve engraved celestial half-gores laid to the celestial poles, with hand-coloured polar, tropic, equatorial and ecliptic circles, the last two graduated, meridians shown to the ecliptic pole, the colures passing (incorrectly) through the ecliptic poles, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures with the stars to various orders of magnitude (no key), the rims painted red, with two brass hooks ( one broken ) and eyes

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 97
Auktion:
Datum:
30.03.2006
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
30 March 2006, London, South Kensington
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