Beschreibung:

A good pair of mid 18th-Century 3-inch diameter English pocket globes attributable to George Adams, after Hermann Moll the terrestrial A Correct GLOBE with the new Discoveries made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, the equatorial graduated in degrees and hours, the ecliptic graduated in 12x 1-30° with sigils for the houses of the Zodiac, the prime meridian of Fero graduated in degrees, the oceans showing currents, a wind rose in the southern Indian Ocean and the track of Cook's 1760 voyage, the continents with nation states shaded in yellow, pink and green and showing forests and mountains in pictorial relief, rivers and deserts, North America with no northern coastline and labelled Parts Unknown , Australia shown joined to Tasmania, Greenland with no northern coastline; the celestial A Correct Globe with ye New Constellations of Dr Halley &c made up of two sets of twelve half gores, some further halved, and two polar calottes laid to the celestial poles, the equatorial, ecliptic and equinoctial colure graduated in degrees and coloured red, the ecliptic labelled only with sigils for the houses of the Zodiac, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures and named in Latin, the stars to five orders of magnitude; both spheres in a (later) engraved brass meridian circle and (later) Dutch-style miniature pale mahogany table stand with hand-drawn horizon paper showing days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac, four turned legs and cross stretchers to meridian support 4½in. (11.4cm.) high (2)