A late 18th-Century English 2¾-inch diameter pocket globe,

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A late 18th-Century English 2¾-inch diameter pocket globe,
A Correct GLOBE with the New Discoveries, after Hermann Moll, made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, with graduated equatorial, meridian and ecliptic, trade winds, wind roses, Cook's Track, variously shaded continents and national boundaries, cities, rivers and mountains and forests in pictorial relief, in a fishskin-covered spherical case, the interior laid with two sets of twelve hand-coloured engraved celestial half-gores and two polar calottes A Correct Globe with y. New Constellations of Dr Halley &c. with graduated half colure and ecliptic, figurative constellations and stars to five orders of magnitude

Literature

DEKKER, E., Globes At Greenwich (Oxford, 1999)

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Lot Essay

Dekker identifies this well-known "anonymous" pocket globe as being identical to that of Herman Moll (fl.1678-1732) of 1719, aside from minor alterations to the text of each of the two cartouches ("the New Discoveries" and "Dr Halley &c." replacing "ye Trade Winds by H. Moll" and "Mr Hevelius.1719" respectively). It has also been suggested, due to its presence in a tellurion, that it was altered, updated and reissued by George Adams (maker of the tellurion in which it is found) which, since Moll's plates passed to his nearest rival John Senex, and thence, via the latter's widow, the plates for the pocket globe passed to George Adams, is perfectly possible.

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