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A 2 ¾-INCH TERRESTRIAL POCKET GLOBE AFTER HERMAN MOLL, English, circa 1775, image 1
A 2 ¾-INCH TERRESTRIAL POCKET GLOBE AFTER HERMAN MOLL, English, circa 1775, image 2
A 2 ¾-INCH TERRESTRIAL POCKET GLOBE AFTER HERMAN MOLL, English, circa 1775, image 3
The Stephen Edell Collection of Pocket and Table Globes
Lot 172

A 2 ¾-INCH TERRESTRIAL POCKET GLOBE AFTER HERMAN MOLL,
English, circa 1775,

15 September 2021, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £7,012.50 inc. premium

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A 2 ¾-INCH TERRESTRIAL POCKET GLOBE AFTER HERMAN MOLL, English, circa 1775,

the rectangular cartouche inscribed A Correct Globe With The New Discoveries, Australia and New Zealand are drawn to Cook's discoveries, the fish-skin case lined with celestial paper gores, inscribed Correct Globe with ye New Constelations of Dr Halley & ...' the case with two swivel securing hooks,
3in (7.5cm) diameter

Footnotes

Provenance:
The Stephen Edell Collection.

Herman Moll (fl.1678-d.1732) was a cartographer and map maker of German decent who settled in England in about 1670. A pocket globe by Moll and dated 1719 is in the National Maritime Museum collection Greenwich. It is suggested that the gores were republished in about 1775 with alterations to Australia and New Zealand coastline and showing James Cook's voyage of 1760 and California shown as a peninsular rather than as an island.

Literature:
For a very similar pocket globe see: Elly Dekker, Globes at Greenwich, London, 1999, p.529.

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