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A Richard Cushee 2 ¾-inch pocket globe, published 1731 English, circa 1731, image 1
A Richard Cushee 2 ¾-inch pocket globe, published 1731 English, circa 1731, image 2
The Stephen Edell Collection of Pocket and Table Globes
Lot 180

A Richard Cushee 2 ¾-inch pocket globe, published 1731
English, circa 1731,

15 September 2021, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Richard Cushee 2 ¾-inch pocket globe, published 1731 English, circa 1731,

the cartouche printed A New Globe of the Earth. R Cushee 1731, the papier-mache sphere applied with twelve copper engraved gores and two polar calottes, California is drawn as an island and Australia is represented according to the Dutch discoveries, the black fish-skin case has a celestial globe on the two inner hemispheres applied with twelve sets of hand coloured half gores,
3in (7.5cm) diameter

Footnotes

Provenance:
Christie's, London, 1967.
The Stephen Edell Collection.

Richard Cushee was a globe maker and surveyor who worked at the sign of the Globe and Sun, between St Dunstan's Church and Chancery Lane in Fleet Street, London. In 1731, together with Thomas Wright, he published a book by Joseph Harris: The description and use of the globes, and the orrery. The pocket globes made by Cushee were used by Wright in the construction of his orreries.

Literature:
Elly Decker, Globes at Greenwich, London, 1999.
Sylvia Sumira, The Art and History of Globes, London, 2014.

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