20th Sep, 2022 10:00

Fine Art & Antiques

 
Lot 1394
 

1394

A George Adams 3-inch English pocket globe, circa 1770, cased, the cartouche printed A Terrestrial GLOBE G: Adams No.60, Fleet Street, London, the paper-mâché sphere applied with twelve printed gores, hand coloured with California as a peninsula, Australia- named New Holland- drawn according to Dutch discoveries with a hypothetical eastern coastline, New Zealand with only a small section of coastline, in fish-skin covered case, the celestial inner hemispheres with printed and hand coloured engraving of the heavens

Sold for £7,000


 

A George Adams 3-inch English pocket globe, circa 1770, cased, the cartouche printed A Terrestrial GLOBE G: Adams No.60, Fleet Street, London, the paper-mâché sphere applied with twelve printed gores, hand coloured with California as a peninsula, Australia- named New Holland- drawn according to Dutch discoveries with a hypothetical eastern coastline, New Zealand with only a small section of coastline, in fish-skin covered case, the celestial inner hemispheres with printed and hand coloured engraving of the heavens

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