A new globe of the earth [cartographic material] / by L. Cushee
- Bib ID:
- 3673780
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Cushee, Leonard Compere, fl1751-1760
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Scale:
- [ca. 1:188,000,000] (W 180°00ʹ--E 180°00ʹ/N 90°00ʹ--S 90°00ʹ).
- Description:
-
- [London : Leonard Cushee ; Sold by Benjamin Cole, Instrument-maker to His Majesty at the Orrery and Globe near Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, 1751]
- 1 globe : col., mounted on wooden stand ; 7 cm. in diam.
- Biography/History:
-
Leonard Compere Cushee is believed to have been a close relation of Richard Cushee (1696-c.1734), globe maker, surveyor, and publisher. Leonard Cushee was apprenticed to Nathaniel Hill in 1751 who in turn had apprenticed with Richard Cushee. Leonard continued to make pocket globes until about 1760.
- Notes:
-
- Pocket-sized terrestrial globe mounted in mahogany stand. This sphere consists of two hemispheres of paper mache joined at the equator with a wooden rod within aligned with the polar axis. The orb was then coated with plaster to which 12 gores are fixed. There are two polar calottes at latitude 70 degrees. Gores are copper engraved, hand-colored and varnished with pivot holes at both poles. The North Pole and South Poles are labeled and extensive trade winds are noted in ocean areas. Northwest Canada and America are labelled Unknown Parts but California is no longer shown as an island. Alaska is indicated with a long slender island. Australia is labelled 'New Holland' and 'Lewin' [i.e. in the region of Perth] according to Dutch discoveries but the eastern coastline is still ill defined with Diemans Land [i.e. Tasmania] joined to the mainland. Note that the unexplored east coast is represented in the typical fashion of this period as joined to New Guinea by an extended land mass labelled Carpentaria. N. Zeeland is also shown. The oceans are named The Great South Sea, Western Ocean, The Atlantic Ocean, Southern Ocean, Indian Sea, The Eastern or Indian Sea and Ice Sea.
- Cartouche title.
- National Library of Australia's copy has several holes & indents in its surface.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-230030011
- Subject:
- Time Coverage:
- 1751
- Copyright:
-
Out of Copyright
You may copy or order a copy through Copies Direct or use the online copy for research or study; for other uses Contact us for further information about copying.
- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1760
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1751
Copyright status may not be correct if data in the record is incomplete or inaccurate. Other access conditions may also apply. For more information please see: Copyright in library collections.
Request this item
Request this item to view in the Library’s reading room.
Feedback
Similar items
- Peregrinatie Iesu Christi [electronic resource] : een ordentlicke bescrijvinge des Heijlighen landts daer ten tijde des Nieuwen Testaments ... / Joannes à Duetecum junior fecit
- The world map of 1624 / by Willem Jansz. Blaeu & Jodocus Hondius ; Gunter Schilder
- A general map of the world, or terraqueous globe [cartographic material] : with all the new discoveries and marginal delineations, containing the most interesting particulars in the solar, starry and mundane system / by Sam'l Dunn
- Mapas antiguos del mundo : suplemento / descritos y comentados por Carlos Sanz
- Kun yu wan guo quan tu [cartographic material] / [by Matteo Ricci]