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POCKET GLOBE; LANE, Nicolas. London: [William] Wetton, [c. 1824].
21 September 2015, 13:00 EDT
New YorkSold for US$3,750 inc. premium
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POCKET GLOBE; LANE, Nicolas.
London: [William] Wetton, [c. 1824].
3" diameter terrestrial pocket globe in original fish skin covered wood case with 3 brass hook and eye clasps and red painted rim. 12 copper engraved hand-colored full gores over papier maché and plaster, overlaid cartouche reading "Wetton / 21 / Fleet Stt / London" in North Pacific, metal pivot at both poles, case with 2 sets of 12 hand-colored copper engraved celestial half gores and 2 polar calottes. Some browning, soiling and spotting (most pronounced beginning in Asia, India, Eastern Ocean and moving east through the Pacific), scattered chipping to varnish, some peeling to celestial gores in case.
A nice example of a late 18th century pocket globe from Nicolas Lane, whose pocket globes were used well into the 19th century, often bearing the name of another vendor as in the present example. Shows the routes of Cook's three voyages (and the return route of Captain King in 1780, but not the location of the death of Cook as in some Lane examples) as well as Anson's voyage, a pictorial Great Wall in China, Van Dimen's land separated from Australia by the Bass Straight; does not depict an Antarctic continent.
"Very little is known about Nicolas Lane ... whose business is particularly associated with pocket globes ... The Lane pocket globes of 2.75 and 3 in. diameter derive from two traditions ... For the smaller one, the copper plated of the celestial counterpart of the Cushee ... pocket globes were used. These were perhaps acquired by Nicolas in the early 1770s when the Cushee firm was dissolved. How the other 3 inch pocket globe came into production is at present unknown" (Dekker Globes at Greenwich p 393).
William Wetton moved his offices from 65 Pasternoster Row to 21 Fleet Street in 1824 (see Brown, London Publishers and Printers c.1800-1870, p 220).
3" diameter terrestrial pocket globe in original fish skin covered wood case with 3 brass hook and eye clasps and red painted rim. 12 copper engraved hand-colored full gores over papier maché and plaster, overlaid cartouche reading "Wetton / 21 / Fleet Stt / London" in North Pacific, metal pivot at both poles, case with 2 sets of 12 hand-colored copper engraved celestial half gores and 2 polar calottes. Some browning, soiling and spotting (most pronounced beginning in Asia, India, Eastern Ocean and moving east through the Pacific), scattered chipping to varnish, some peeling to celestial gores in case.
A nice example of a late 18th century pocket globe from Nicolas Lane, whose pocket globes were used well into the 19th century, often bearing the name of another vendor as in the present example. Shows the routes of Cook's three voyages (and the return route of Captain King in 1780, but not the location of the death of Cook as in some Lane examples) as well as Anson's voyage, a pictorial Great Wall in China, Van Dimen's land separated from Australia by the Bass Straight; does not depict an Antarctic continent.
"Very little is known about Nicolas Lane ... whose business is particularly associated with pocket globes ... The Lane pocket globes of 2.75 and 3 in. diameter derive from two traditions ... For the smaller one, the copper plated of the celestial counterpart of the Cushee ... pocket globes were used. These were perhaps acquired by Nicolas in the early 1770s when the Cushee firm was dissolved. How the other 3 inch pocket globe came into production is at present unknown" (Dekker Globes at Greenwich p 393).
William Wetton moved his offices from 65 Pasternoster Row to 21 Fleet Street in 1824 (see Brown, London Publishers and Printers c.1800-1870, p 220).