A correct globe with the new discoveries
- Bib ID:
- 7296323
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Moll, Herman, -1732, cartographer
- Scale:
- Scale not given (W 180°00'--E 180°/N 90°00'--S 90°00').
- Description:
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- London : [Herman Moll], [1773?]
- 1 globe : hand coloured, copper-engraved gores over papier mache and plaster sphere, varnished ; 7.1 cm in diameter.
- Notes:
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- Terrestrial pocket globe of the world showing the route of Cook's first (1770) voyage, erroneously dated 1760, with its important Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific explorations. It contains the place name "Botany B.," site of Cook's first landfall on the Australian continent in 1770. The globe also shows a highly provisional Alaska ("Beering's Ld."), Northwest Coast, and the re-attachment of California to the mainland. Relief shown pictorially.
- Cartouche title.
- In a wooden case in two parts covered with black shark skin, with both original brass eyelet clasps, and lined with celestial maps of northern and southern skies. Inside case a cartouche "A correct globe with ye new constellations of Dr Halley &c."
- The globe is referenced in E. Dekker, 'Globes at Greenwich', GLB197, and in P. Van der Krogt, 'Old globes in the Netherlands', Ada 1-4.
- Subject:
- Time Coverage:
- 1773
- Other authors/contributors:
- Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742
- Copyright:
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- 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):
- 1742
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1773
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