Beschreibung:

A rare early 18th-Century English 2¾-inch diameter terrestrial pocket globe, signed C Price Fecit , c.1701, made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, the equatorial and the meridian at 175°W graduated in degrees, the Greenwich meridian not marked but 0° at the correct longitude, the vernal equinox at 15°E, circles of latitude every 30°, Tropic and Polar circles labelled with inner polar circles in red, the oceans with trade winds shown by arrows and dashes, the Newfoundland bank and Dampier Straits shown, the continents with nation states shaded and outlined in yellow, greeen and pink, showing country names and rivers, with pictorial representations of mountains and rivers, Australia labelled N. Holland , connected to New Guinea, and with no eastern coastline, a southern stretch of coastline approximating to Tasmania labelled N. Zeland , Japan shown as an island and as two portions of coastline bordering a strait and labelled Land of yedso and Iapon , north-eastern Asia labelled Incognita , the Caspian Sea shown, Central Africa labelled Ethiopia with Incognita in two places, Greenland and Canada with no northern coastline, and no coastline shown North of the island of California, the remainder of North America with little detail, the Falkands shown as two small incomplete portions of coastline forming an isthmus ( some minor discolouration, narrow crack approx. 7cm. long through Africa and the Indian Ocean, narrow crack approx. 2cm. long in the Atlantic, rust mark near North Pole ) in a spherical wooden fishskin-covered case secured by two brass hooks and eyes, the interior laid with two sets of twenty-four hand-coloured engraved celestial half-gores and two polar calottes, the equatorial and ecliptic graduated in degrees, the latter unnumbered but with sigils for the houses of the Zodiac, circles of latitude every 30°, the stars to several orders of magnitude, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures See Illustrations