18TH C. ENGLISH MINIATURE TERRESTRIAL POCKET GLOBE
A Correct GLOBE with the new Discoveries
terrestrial globe; the celestrial interior of the case lined with celestial map, marked "A Correct Globe with y New Constelations of Dr. Halley & Co"; original shagreen case with brass clasp and hinge; 3"diam.
From the collection of an Andover, MA gentleman. A very similar example is is the Harvard University Archives.
Joseph Moxon, hydrographer to Charles II, produced the first pocket globes between 1659 and 1670. Others produced such globes through the early 1800s incl. Scottish astronomer James Ferguson (1710-1776). Ferguson's globes were 3", not the standard 2". The globes' designs were etched onto copper plates and impressed on paper globe gores, then glued onto papier-m
Estimate: $3,000 - $4,000
Realized: $5,500 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 170 : 18TH C. ENGLISH MINIATURE TERRESTRIAL POCKET GLOBE
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