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NEWTON, John (1759-1844). Newton's New and Improved Terrestrial Pocket Globe. London: 66 Chancery Lane, January 1st 1817.
A 3 inch (7.5cm) diameter pocket globe, with 12 hand-coloured engraved gores, continents in green, red and yellow, seas in green, the globe showing Cook's tracks of 1773-1774, and 1778. The globe varnished and mounted on metal axis, brass polar hour circles, and meridian circle, mounted upright in a black fish-skin case, upper hemisphere with engraved celestial sky, clasp (a few minor cracks to case).
John Newton and his family were the foremost pocket globe makers of the late 18th and early 19th Century, the family business spanning over 100 years. John Newton published his first pocket globe in 1783, using Hill 175 4 upper plates; Newton had been apprenticed with Thomas Bateman (suc essor of Nathaniel Hill). In 1818, John took his son William on as a partner and in the 1830s Miles Berry joined the firm. Apart from a succession of attractive pocket globes for the gentry, the firm specialised in tall library globes which were both elegant and functional. Cf Dekker Van der Krugt Globes from the Western World. pp.115, 118.
A 3 inch (7.5cm) diameter pocket globe, with 12 hand-coloured engraved gores, continents in green, red and yellow, seas in green, the globe showing Cook's tracks of 1773-1774, and 1778. The globe varnished and mounted on metal axis, brass polar hour circles, and meridian circle, mounted upright in a black fish-skin case, upper hemisphere with engraved celestial sky, clasp (a few minor cracks to case).
John Newton and his family were the foremost pocket globe makers of the late 18th and early 19th Century, the family business spanning over 100 years. John Newton published his first pocket globe in 1783, using Hill 175 4 upper plates; Newton had been apprenticed with Thomas Bateman (suc essor of Nathaniel Hill). In 1818, John took his son William on as a partner and in the 1830s Miles Berry joined the firm. Apart from a succession of attractive pocket globes for the gentry, the firm specialised in tall library globes which were both elegant and functional. Cf Dekker Van der Krugt Globes from the Western World. pp.115, 118.
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