
Jon Baddeley
Specialist Consultant Collectors, Science & Marine
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Provenance:
The Stephen Edell Collection.
Literature:
John R. Millburn, Adams of Fleet Street, Instrument Makers to King George III, London, 2000.
George Adams (1709-1772) was one of the most celebrated instrument makers of his day, becoming mathematical instrument-maker to the Office of Ordnance in 1748, and in 1760 he was appointed to the court of King George III. The Cook expedition to the South Seas used instruments supplied by Adams.