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JOHN NEWTON (1754-1844)
A New Terrestrial Globe, [London]: 1800. A 2¾in. (7cm.) diameter terrestrial pocket globe made up of 12 hand-coloured engraved gores with iron axis pins, the equinoctial line in yellow, the ecliptic line in green, both graduated, the meridian of Greenwich in green and ungraduated, wind directions shown over the oceans, Australia named New Holland and New South Wales, Botany Bay labelled, also Dimen's Land, Lewin's Land and St. Francis Island, Tasmania shown as an island and labelled 'Diemans Land', New Zeeland shown, south polar region empty and with perimeter labelled the 'Ice Sea', Canada and Greenland with no northern coastline, California a peninsula, central America labelled 'Mexico or New Spain', 'Admiral Ansons Tract' and 'Captain Cook's Tract' marked. (Some light abrasion and discolouration.) In the original red-edged spherical fishskin covered case with hinge and two brass clasps, the interior laid with twelve celestial gores separating around the equinoctial, the constellations depicted as mythical beasts and figures labelled in Latin (case hinge defective).
EARLY POCKET GLOBE by John Newton who was apprenticed to Thomas Bateman, and made his first globe, a pocket globe, in partnership with William Palmer, in 1780, using Nathaniel Hill's gores. At the turn of the 19th century, he was located at 97 Chancery Lane, where he was soon joined in business by his second son, William. The celebrated firm of globemakers continued in business until the early 20th century.
A New Terrestrial Globe, [London]: 1800. A 2¾in. (7cm.) diameter terrestrial pocket globe made up of 12 hand-coloured engraved gores with iron axis pins, the equinoctial line in yellow, the ecliptic line in green, both graduated, the meridian of Greenwich in green and ungraduated, wind directions shown over the oceans, Australia named New Holland and New South Wales, Botany Bay labelled, also Dimen's Land, Lewin's Land and St. Francis Island, Tasmania shown as an island and labelled 'Diemans Land', New Zeeland shown, south polar region empty and with perimeter labelled the 'Ice Sea', Canada and Greenland with no northern coastline, California a peninsula, central America labelled 'Mexico or New Spain', 'Admiral Ansons Tract' and 'Captain Cook's Tract' marked. (Some light abrasion and discolouration.) In the original red-edged spherical fishskin covered case with hinge and two brass clasps, the interior laid with twelve celestial gores separating around the equinoctial, the constellations depicted as mythical beasts and figures labelled in Latin (case hinge defective).
EARLY POCKET GLOBE by John Newton who was apprenticed to Thomas Bateman, and made his first globe, a pocket globe, in partnership with William Palmer, in 1780, using Nathaniel Hill's gores. At the turn of the 19th century, he was located at 97 Chancery Lane, where he was soon joined in business by his second son, William. The celebrated firm of globemakers continued in business until the early 20th century.
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