A fine and rare George III 2.5 inch pocket globe J. Newton, London, dated 1782 The sphere applied with twelve hand coloured printed gores and two polar calottes with the equinoctial graduated in degrees and the conforming eclyptic highlighted in green, the prime meridian passing through London and the principal land masses outlined in colour and annotated with some of the major rivers and mountain ranges, the oceans showing the winds with islands labelled and printed with dotted lines for Admiral Anson’s Tract and Captain Cook’s Tract (1760), the North Pacific region with rococo scroll printed title cartouche A, NEW, Terrestrial, GLOBE:, by, Newton, 1782, the spherical fishskin covered case lined with twelve hand coloured printed gores and two polar calottes with stars expressed in varying orders of magnitude and allegorical representations of the constellations finely executed, (case with some damage and slight losses to hinge area), overall diameter 7.3cm (2.875ins). John Newton is recorded in Gloria, Clifton Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 as a globe maker working from 128 Chancery Lane 1783-99 then 97 Chancery Lane 1803-16 and finally number 66 on the same street 1817-18. Condition report disclaimer
A fine and rare George III 2.5 inch pocket globe J. Newton, London, dated 1782 The sphere applied with twelve hand coloured printed gores and two polar calottes with the equinoctial graduated in degrees and the conforming eclyptic highlighted in green, the prime meridian passing through London and the principal land masses outlined in colour and annotated with some of the major rivers and mountain ranges, the oceans showing the winds with islands labelled and printed with dotted lines for Admiral Anson’s Tract and Captain Cook’s Tract (1760), the North Pacific region with rococo scroll printed title cartouche A, NEW, Terrestrial, GLOBE:, by, Newton, 1782, the spherical fishskin covered case lined with twelve hand coloured printed gores and two polar calottes with stars expressed in varying orders of magnitude and allegorical representations of the constellations finely executed, (case with some damage and slight losses to hinge area), overall diameter 7.3cm (2.875ins). John Newton is recorded in Gloria, Clifton Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 as a globe maker working from 128 Chancery Lane 1783-99 then 97 Chancery Lane 1803-16 and finally number 66 on the same street 1817-18. Condition report disclaimer
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