Description

A William IV / early Victorian terrestrial desk globe by Newton & Son.

The 9” or 23cm globe made of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes , inscribed

NEWTON’S

New and Improved

TERRESTRIAL GLOBE

DRAWN FROM THE

Surveys of the most esteemed

Navigators and Travellers

NEWTON and SON Chancery Lane

& 3 Fleet St Temple Bar,

Dating the globe;

Tasmania labelled Van Dieman’s Land (pre 1846)

showing discovery of Endrby’s Land  in Antarctic, (post 1831-33).

The plaster core globe with iron axis pins mounted in an iron full meridian frame on a painted iron pillar and wooden concave sided triform base on turned wooden bun feet.

All in good, sound, presentable, un restored, original condition.

Shallow areas of varnish loss, abrasions, scratches, stains, surface hairlines between the gores and  with small cracks near the South Pole.