Beschreibung:

Pocock (Ebenezer), Patent paper globe, published Bristol, circa 1830, twelve large lithographic paper gores with contemporary outline colouring, north pole calotte with calender and zodiac scales, printed with the tracks of Cook, La Perouse and Vancouver together with other non-circumnavigating explorers, linen ties at base, heavily creased with several tears to paper, overall length 1250 mm (approximately four feet) A scarce 'Montgolfier-style' hot air balloon globe. A heat source placed beneath the globe would have inflated the paper allowing the globe to rise. Alternatively the balloon could be inflated with a pump. Fully inflated to its twelve foot circumference the globe would have resembled a large Chinese lantern. Printed beneath the patent on the globe is the legend 'Sets of gores with outline for the formation of globes with a corresponding atlas. Skelton hemispheres and the four quarters, states: Air pumps for the inflation of globes may be had of the author'. In view of its flimsy construction very few of these globes have survived. (1)