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MORDEN, ROBERT (c.1669-1703), William Berry (1639-1718) and Philip Lea (1683-1700)

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£ 100 000 – 150 000
Auction dateClassic
10.07.2024 00:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 111 | MORDEN, ROBERT (c.1669-1703), William Berry (1639-1718) and Philip Lea (1683-1700)
MORDEN, ROBERT (c.1669-1703), William Berry (1639-1718) and Philip Lea (1683-1700)
AN EARLY PAIR OF ENGLISH TABLE GLOBES
The earliest obtainable pair of English globes.

The terrestrial: made up of twelve engraved, hand-coloured paper gores and two circular polar calottes, the titular cartouche A New TERRESTRIAL GLOBE. Made by Rt Morden. Wm Berry. Ph Lea. And Sold at their Shops at the Atlas in Cornhill, at ye Globe at Cheringcross, and at ye Atlas & [...] in Cheapside London, with a second cartouche To the Reader..., graduated equator, ecliptic and meridian through the Azores, the continents decorated with animals and peoples, the seas with ships, sea monsters and rhumb lines, routes of the circumnavigations of Sir Francis Drake and Sir Thomas Cavendish; no Antarctic continent, Australia partially delineated to West and North, some of van Diemen's land given, California as an Island, no Western nor Northern coasts to Canada, Southern Greenland as a series of Islands, China with rivers and major cities to the East of the Great Wall, peninsula of Korea;

The celestial: made up of twelve engraved, hand-coloured paper gores and two circular polar calottes, the cartouche A New CELESTIAL GLOBE. Made by Rt Morden. Wm Berry. Ph Lea. And Sold at their Shops at the Atlas in Cornhill, at ye Globe at Cheringcross, and at ye Atlas & Hercules in Cheapside London, magnitude table pasted to the right of Auriga, the axis through the celestial pole, graduated equator and ecliptic, the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds labelled, Cor Caroli marked with heart and coronet underneath Ursus Major, a novæ in Cygnus and Cetus also labelled, the stars picked out in gilt paint and shown to six orders of magnitude, a total of 62 stars and three star groups named, 48 Ptolemaic constellations and four of the non-Ptolemaic constellations drawn, two of the southern constellations and the twelve southern constellations of Plancius drawn;

Each globe supported in a graduated brass meridian ring, with a brass, graduated hour circle above the pole with hand-pointer, fitting in a horizon ring with engraved calendrical scales on paper with 32 compass points and signs of the zodiac, months divided into days for Julian and Gregorian calendars, on oak stands of six turned legs terminating in bun feet, united with cross stretchers bearing a moulded platform and meridian support; the celestial retaining original compass fitted onto moulded base; the terrestrial with engraving to edge of meridian ring PRESENTED TO ST MARYS LODGE BY BRO. W.S.B. NORTHOVER 1910


21 in. (53 cm.) high; 14¼ in. (36 cm.) (2)




Provenance

Presented to St. Mary's Masonic Lodge, Bridport by Walter S.B. Northover in 1910.



Literature

Emma Perkins, 'The Seventeenth-Century Terrestrial Globe by Morden, Berry and Lea', Imago Mundi, vol. 71, 2019, pp.51-64, no.1.
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