‘Smith’s Celestial Globe’ in original case, 1834
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1834 Pocket Globe, with 24 coloured & lacquered paper gores, showing the voyages of Cook, Gore, Clerke, Vancouver and la Perouse, printed in a cartouche ‘SMITH’S / TERRESTERIAL GLOBE / exhibiting the whole of the / DISCOVERIES / to 1834 / London / C.Smith & Son / 172 Strand’, with its original fish-skin case. 1834
Condition | some damage inside case, some flaws t globe, some loss to lacquerwork |
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Size | 10.5cm wide |
References | Charles Smith & Son was founded in 1799 by Charles Smith "engraver to the Prince of Wales", started by selling maps. Competition with the Cary firm may have stimulated the addition of globes to their line of production. The firm had a shop in The Strand from 1827 to 1852 and then later moved to 63 Charing Cross. |
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