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A Nicolas Lane 2 ¾-inch pocket globe in case, English, circa 1780, image 1
A Nicolas Lane 2 ¾-inch pocket globe in case, English, circa 1780, image 2
The Stephen Edell Collection of Pocket and Table Globes
Lot 171

A Nicolas Lane 2 ¾-inch pocket globe in case,
English, circa 1780,

15 September 2021, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £8,287.50 inc. premium

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A Nicolas Lane 2 ¾-inch pocket globe in case, English, circa 1780,

the cartouche printed A New Globe of the EARTH by N.Lane, printed outside the cartouche 1776 Prockter fc, the sphere with twelve printed gores, hand coloured and detailing Anson's and Captain Cook's tracks, Tasmania is labelled Dimens Land and attached to mainland Australia and California is represented as a peninsula, in fish-skin covered case with inner hemisphere applied with two sets of twelve half gores printed with the celestial globe,
3in (7.5cm) diameter

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Provenance:
The Stephen Edell Collection.

Nicolas Lane was recorded as living in Southwark by 1783, but otherwise there is scant information on this maker beyond his pocket globes. The present 2 ¾-inch example would have derived from copper plates of the celestial counterpart of earlier Cushee pocket globes. In contrast, the tradition of the larger, 3-inch Lane globes is not yet known.

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