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A Dr Hooper silver pocket terrestrial globe, English, image 1
A Dr Hooper silver pocket terrestrial globe, English, image 2
Lot 25

A Dr Hooper silver pocket terrestrial globe,
English,

25 September 2019, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £4,812.50 inc. premium

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A Dr Hooper silver pocket terrestrial globe, English,

engraved in a cartouche DR HOOPER MASTR OF THIS GLOBE, two hemispheres with single hinge and button catch, engraved with map of the world and showing California as a peninsular and Tasmania as a peninsular, in unassociated conical fishskin case, 1⅝in (4cm) diameter,

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As the outline of New Zealand is complete and Tasmania shown as a peninsular it indicates that this globe was made after Cook's voyage and before 1805.

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