An 18-inch terrestrial globe by Dudley Adams, London, 1809
No reserve
Lot Closed
June 9, 02:26 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 GBP
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Description
with a cartouche reading Britanniarium / REGI Augustiſsimo / GEORGIO TERTIO / Scientarium Cultori pariter et Præſidio / Globum hunc Terrestrem / Omnes hactenus exploratos terrarum tractas, Ad / Observationes Navigantium Itinerantium et Aſtronomo- / rum recentiores accuratiſsime descriptos exhibentem, / Grati animi et pietatis monumentum, / D. D. Q. / Omni cultu et officio devinctiſsimus / D. Adams / Made by D. ADAMS, Globe Maker to the King, Inst Maker to his / Majesty's Ordnce, & Optician to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales / No 6 Fleet Street London / 1809, the horizon ring with months and signs of the Zodiac, the later engraved brass meridian ring resting on a mahogany tripod stand centred by a compass
diameter of horizon rings 61cm; 24in.
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