Sold for:
$6,150
$6,150
Dudley Adams 18-inch Terrestrial Globe, c. 1798, twenty-four printed gores on plaster sphere and cartouche reading in part: Britanniarum REGI Augustissimo GEORGIO TERTIO., Made by D. ADAMS, Globe Maker to the King, Ins't Maker to his Majesty's Ordh'ee, & Optician to H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, No. 60 Fleet Street London1798 , calibrated brass meridian ring with hour ring at the pole, printed horizon band with Gregorian and Zodiacal calendars, supported on a turned baluster tripod stand with an engraved paper compass, and brass casters, ht. 40 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-05-03
