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A rare example of a Dudley Adams globe retailed by Watkins & Hill.
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DUDLEY ADAMS/WATKINS & HILL, London
A 12-inch celestial globe with two sets of twelve coloured engraved gores, labeled To His Most Sacred Majesty George the Third, This New Celestial Globe containing all ye Southern Constelations lately observed at the Cape of Good Hope & all the Stars in Flamsted's British Catalogue, Is most humbly Inscribed by His Majesty's most dutyfull & obliged Subject & Servant ... Sold by Watkins & Hill, Opticians, Charing Cross, London, with brass meridian circle and hour ring and coloured horizon, on mahogany stand with horizon supported by four quadrants from turned support on three cabriole legs with pad feet -- 22in.(56cm.)high
A 12-inch celestial globe with two sets of twelve coloured engraved gores, labeled To His Most Sacred Majesty George the Third, This New Celestial Globe containing all ye Southern Constelations lately observed at the Cape of Good Hope & all the Stars in Flamsted's British Catalogue, Is most humbly Inscribed by His Majesty's most dutyfull & obliged Subject & Servant ... Sold by Watkins & Hill, Opticians, Charing Cross, London, with brass meridian circle and hour ring and coloured horizon, on mahogany stand with horizon supported by four quadrants from turned support on three cabriole legs with pad feet -- 22in.(56cm.)high