Wright’s new improved terrestrial globe,
A$25,000 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books
on which the Latitudes and Longitudes of Places are Carefully laid down, with all the New Discoveries Made by the late CAPT. COOK and other current NAVIGATORS to the Present Time. London : William Bardin, 1782. Terrestrial globe, 9 inches in diameter, engraved gores and two polar calottes with original hand colouring over papier mache base, graduated equator, ecliptic and Greenwich meridian, the oceans with an analemma, ocean currents, monsoons and showing the tracks of numerous explorers; hand-engraved calibrated brass meridian ring, two movable brass polar arrows, engraved calendrical paper horizon ring with zodiac (in facsimile) laid on wood, supported on the original stand of four turned wooden legs united with cross-stretchers. A fine example with a rich and warm patina, some natural old discolouration due to the glue used of the period, recent lacquer expertly applied for conservation. A fine eighteenth-century globe which shows the tracks of Cook s three voyages, the place of his death in Hawaii only four years prior noted with detail. The voyages of Clipperton and Anson are also marked. The island of Tasmania is joined to the mainland of New Holland, and the Antarctic region is described as being insurmountable fields vast mountains of ice . Bardin s 9 inch terrestrial globe was originally available for purchase by subscribers to the Geographical Magazine . Upon a second payment a celestial globe was also available. Bardin also supplied globes for other publishers, in
- Binding: Hardcover
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