AN ENGLISH 3-INCH POCKET GLOBE

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£ 3 000
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09.12.2020 00:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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United Kingdom, London
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ID 470232
Lot 83 | AN ENGLISH 3-INCH POCKET GLOBE
AN ENGLISH 3-INCH POCKET GLOBE

T. HARRIS & SON, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

New Terrestrial Globe by T. Harris & Son London 1819, made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, graduated equator and ecliptic, polar circles and tropics given as dashed lines, Australia as New Holland and N. South Wales, Tasmania given as an Island named Diemans Land, no Antarctic continent, north coast of Greenland and Canada not given, but a section in Canada labelled Sea 1772, the interior celestial gores with cartouche New Celestial Globe by T. Harris & Son London; in original simulated fishskin case with three brass clasps.

3 ¼in. (8cm.) diameter in case

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