A William IV / early Victorian terrestrial table globe London, Newton & Son, 1831-46
The 9” or 23cm globe laid with twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes , maker 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,
The plaster core globe with iron axis pins mounted in a cast iron, graduated 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.
Dating the globe;
Tasmania labelled Van Dieman’s Land (pre 1846)
showing discovery of Endrby’s Land in Antarctic, (post 1831-33).
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Antique ID Number (AIDN): SA724361
Dateline of this antique is 19th Century
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