Lot 36

Moll, Hermann




Auction: 26 January 2011 at 11:00 GMT
£3,000
Description
A correct globe with the new discoveries, an English 7cm. diameter pocket globe, [c.1775], made up of 12 hand-coloured engraved gores, original fish skin case with two hook-and-eye clasps, lined with the hand-coloured engraved celestial gores and polar calottes for "A Correct Globe with ye New Constelations of Dr Halley & c.", [.Globes at Greenwich. GLB0196], superficial cracks on case, damage to polar areas and surface abrasions, small split to case which does not close



