HILL, Nathaniel (fl. 1746-1768), London
HILL, Nathaniel (fl. 1746-1768), London

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HILL, Nathaniel (fl. 1746-1768), London
A NEW Terrestrial GLOBE by Nath Hill 1754
A 2¾-inch (7cm.) diameter terrestrial pocket globe, made up of twelve hand coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, the prime meridian running through London, ungraduated, the equatorial graduated in degrees, the ecliptic divided and showing the zodiac symbols, the continents outlined in colour, North-West Canada bearing the legend Unknown Parts, California shown as a peninsular, North America and Australia with partial coastlines, the oceans showing the track of Anson's circumnavigation of 1740-44, and wind directions (lacking axis pins), in fishskin-covered case lined with the hand coloured engraved gores and calottes of a celestial globe (both halves of case cracked, causing slight loss of image), two brass hooks and eyes

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Literature
CALVERT, H.R. Scientific Trade Cards In The Science Museum Collection (London, 1971)
DEKKER, Elly and Peter van der KROGT Globes From The Western World (London, 1993)
KROGT, Peter van der Old Globes In The Netherlands (Utrecht, 1984) LAMB, Tom and Jeremy P. COLLINS (ed.) The World In Your Hands (London, 1994)

Lot Essay

Nathaniel Hill (fl. 1746-1768) produced "New and Correct GLOBES, of 3,9,12 & 15 Inches Diameter" according to his trade card (Calvert p. 26, item 194, plate 27). However, Dekker and van der Krogt note that "the pocket globes, dated 1754, are almost his only remaining globes" (p. 105). Van der Krogt describes the 2¾ inch terrestrial globe (Hil 1-2) in a case lined with celestial gores (Hil 4) as Hil 3, and illustrates an example (pp. 11 and 146-7, colour plate 3). The World In Your Hands shows another example of the terrestrial paired with the celestial gores mounted on a globe, both within brass meridian rings on ivory stands (p. 73, item 5.10/11).

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