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ADAMS, Dudley. New Globe of the Earth correctly laid down according to ye best Observations & Latest Discoveries; New Celestial Globe containing all ye Southern Constellations lately observed at the Cape of Good Hope...G.Adams. made by D.Adams. London: Charing Cross, dated 1793 (celestial) - 1795 (terrestrial).
A pair of table globes, diameter 12 inches (31cm), overall height 26 inches (66cm). Each globe comprising two sets of 12 engraved gores, hand-coloured in outline, celestial gores laid to ecliptic poles and decorated with constellation figures arranged after John Flamsteed's tables, names in Latin and English, the terrestrial marking the tracks of the three Voyages of James Cook, Anson's voyage and the trade winds of the low latitudes (both globes cleaned and revarnished, celestial with small cracks at southern pole, terrestrial globe restored, 3 facsimile gores to upper hemisphere). Metal pinions, brass hour circles and meridian circle, graduated on one face,grooved on verso. Hand-coloured engraved horizon bars (stained), each globe mounted on English style mahogany tripod stands, spirally fluted shafts with downswept legs to pointed feet (lacking cross-stretchers and compasses).
Dudley Adams (1762-1830), son of the important globemaker George Adams Snr, left the family business in 1790, working as an independent instrument maker from 53 Charing Cross. This pair is a reissue of his fathers 12 inch globes first published in 1760-66, updated by his elder brother George Adams Jnr with the discoveries of Cook. In 1795 on the death of his brother he returned to the family business in Fleet Street.
A pair of table globes, diameter 12 inches (31cm), overall height 26 inches (66cm). Each globe comprising two sets of 12 engraved gores, hand-coloured in outline, celestial gores laid to ecliptic poles and decorated with constellation figures arranged after John Flamsteed's tables, names in Latin and English, the terrestrial marking the tracks of the three Voyages of James Cook, Anson's voyage and the trade winds of the low latitudes (both globes cleaned and revarnished, celestial with small cracks at southern pole, terrestrial globe restored, 3 facsimile gores to upper hemisphere). Metal pinions, brass hour circles and meridian circle, graduated on one face,grooved on verso. Hand-coloured engraved horizon bars (stained), each globe mounted on English style mahogany tripod stands, spirally fluted shafts with downswept legs to pointed feet (lacking cross-stretchers and compasses).
Dudley Adams (1762-1830), son of the important globemaker George Adams Snr, left the family business in 1790, working as an independent instrument maker from 53 Charing Cross. This pair is a reissue of his fathers 12 inch globes first published in 1760-66, updated by his elder brother George Adams Jnr with the discoveries of Cook. In 1795 on the death of his brother he returned to the family business in Fleet Street.