Claire Tole-Moir
Head of Department
Lot 100*
A 3-inch pocket globe after Herman Moll, English, late 18th century,
A Correct Globe with the New Discoveries.
19 May 2015, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,125 inc. premium
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A 3-inch pocket globe after Herman Moll, English, late 18th century,
A Correct Globe with the New Discoveries.
the pocket globe in papier maiché case with 3 brass hook and eye clasps. 12 hand coloured copper-engraved gores with 2 polar calottes over papier maché and plaster, pivot holes at poles, titled within square cartouche in northern part of the "Great South Sea." Case with 2 sets of 12 hand coloured copper-engraved celestial half gores with 2 polar calottes, signed "A Correct Globe with ye New Constellations of Dr Halley &c."
A lovely pocket globe, where "California is drawn as a peninsula, and the north-west coast of America is extended up to Beering's L.d; Australia and New Zealand are adapted according to Cook's discoveries and N. S Wales, Cooks Str are added. The track of Dampier is removed but traces of it are still visible and Cooks Track 1760 is added..." (Dekker Globes at Greenwich p 529). Dekker notes on p 418 of Globes at Greenwich that this is in fact a later anonymous issue of Hermann Moll's 1719 A Correct Globe with ye Trade Winds, one of the differences being the change of name in the celestial globe from Hevelius to Halley. Dekker Globes at Greenwich GLB0196.
the pocket globe in papier maiché case with 3 brass hook and eye clasps. 12 hand coloured copper-engraved gores with 2 polar calottes over papier maché and plaster, pivot holes at poles, titled within square cartouche in northern part of the "Great South Sea." Case with 2 sets of 12 hand coloured copper-engraved celestial half gores with 2 polar calottes, signed "A Correct Globe with ye New Constellations of Dr Halley &c."
A lovely pocket globe, where "California is drawn as a peninsula, and the north-west coast of America is extended up to Beering's L.d; Australia and New Zealand are adapted according to Cook's discoveries and N. S Wales, Cooks Str are added. The track of Dampier is removed but traces of it are still visible and Cooks Track 1760 is added..." (Dekker Globes at Greenwich p 529). Dekker notes on p 418 of Globes at Greenwich that this is in fact a later anonymous issue of Hermann Moll's 1719 A Correct Globe with ye Trade Winds, one of the differences being the change of name in the celestial globe from Hevelius to Halley. Dekker Globes at Greenwich GLB0196.