Description:
In the 1650s, Joseph Moxon produced the first British pocket globe. By the 18th century, pocket globes had become popular in England and her American colonies. They are believed to have served as an educational aid, but because of their small size, pocket globes may also have been viewed as a conversation piece, novelty, or status symbol. This 2 3/4" terrestrial globe came with a sharkskin covered carrying case lined with a concave celestial globe. world globe. marked 1776 in case. [?]; the sphere with cartouche printed A New Globe of the EARTH by N.Lane and outside the cartouche 1776 Prockter fc, the twelve printed gores, hand colored and detailing Anson's and Captain Cook's tracks, Tasmania is labeled "Dimes Land" and is attached to mainland Australia and California is represented as a peninsula, in shagreen covered case with inner hemisphere applied with two sets of twelve half gores printed with the celestial globe
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