BETTS, John, London (fl.1839-1863)

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BETTS, John, London (fl.1839-1863)
BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. BETTS'S PORTABLE TERRESTRIAL GLOBE COMPILED FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES. British Empire coloured red. LONDON: GEORGE PHILIP & SON Ltd, 32 FLEET STREET. LIVERPOOL: PHILIP & SON & NEPHEW Ltd, 20 CHURCH STREET. Printed in Great Britain.
A 16-inch (40.6cm.) diameter collapsible terrestrial globe printed in colours on waxed fabric, land features include mountain ranges and major rivers, the Greenwich meridian, ecliptic and equator graduated in degrees, with black enamelled brass umbrella-type frame, with protective cardboard roll -- 29in. (73.7cm.) high

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Literature

LAMB, Tom and COLLINS, Jeremy P. (ed.) The World In Your Hands (London, 1994), 1.6

Lot Essay

John Betts was a manufacturer mainly of educational globes for school- and home-use. His popular folding globes are some of the earliest in England, and were successfully reissued by the geographical publishers George Philip & Son until the early 1900's. A similar globe was produced on the continent around 1850 by Giacondo Regazzoni, based on a collapsible globe made by French cartographer Augustin Legrand in 1839.

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