An 18-inch terrestrial table globe with very rare mahogany travelling case, Dudley Adams, London dated 1813 with twenty four engraved and hand-coloured gores, inscribed in a cartouche Britanniarium REGI Augustissimo GEORGIO TERTIO, Scientarium Cultori pariter et Praesidio, Globum hunc Terrestrem, Omnes hactenus exploratos terrarum tractas, Ad Observationes Navigantium Itinerantium et Astronomorum recentiores accuratissime descriptos exhibentem, Grati animi et pietatis monumentum, D. D. Q., Omni cultu et officio devinctissimus, D. Adams, Made by D Adams, Globe Maker to the King, Inst Maker to his Majesty's ordnc & Optician to HRH the Prince of Wales, No.60 Fleet Street London, 1813, with finely detailed cartography, the coutries outlined in green, the oceans showing some shipping routes and trade winds, the tracks of the voyages of Anson, Cook, Furneaux and Clerke, together with many interesting comments within Africa and details of North American Indian territories, brass hour rings to both poles, engraved brass meridian with calendar to the reverse at the North Pole, the horizon with engraved and hand coloured paper scale with calendar and zodiacal signs, the mahogany stand with turned pillar and tripod cabriole supports joined by stretchers with a compass; together with a cylindrical mahogany travelling case with domed top 80cm. 31½in. high; Case 95cm. 37½in. high
An 18-inch terrestrial table globe with very rare mahogany travelling case, Dudley Adams, London dated 1813 with twenty four engraved and hand-coloured gores, inscribed in a cartouche Britanniarium REGI Augustissimo GEORGIO TERTIO, Scientarium Cultori pariter et Praesidio, Globum hunc Terrestrem, Omnes hactenus exploratos terrarum tractas, Ad Observationes Navigantium Itinerantium et Astronomorum recentiores accuratissime descriptos exhibentem, Grati animi et pietatis monumentum, D. D. Q., Omni cultu et officio devinctissimus, D. Adams, Made by D Adams, Globe Maker to the King, Inst Maker to his Majesty's ordnc & Optician to HRH the Prince of Wales, No.60 Fleet Street London, 1813, with finely detailed cartography, the coutries outlined in green, the oceans showing some shipping routes and trade winds, the tracks of the voyages of Anson, Cook, Furneaux and Clerke, together with many interesting comments within Africa and details of North American Indian territories, brass hour rings to both poles, engraved brass meridian with calendar to the reverse at the North Pole, the horizon with engraved and hand coloured paper scale with calendar and zodiacal signs, the mahogany stand with turned pillar and tripod cabriole supports joined by stretchers with a compass; together with a cylindrical mahogany travelling case with domed top 80cm. 31½in. high; Case 95cm. 37½in. high
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