The terrestrial: with cartouche inscribed, 'THE/ NEW TWELVE INCH/ BRITISH/ Terrestrial Globe,/ REPRESENTING THE/ ACCURATE PRINCIPAL/ KNOWN PLACES OF THE EARTH/ FROM THE DISCOVERIES OF/ CAPTAIN COOK/ AND SUBSEQUENT CIRCUMNAVIGATORS/ TO THE PRESENT PERIOD/ with corrections and additions to 1817./ Manufactured by T.M. Bardin 16 Salisbury Square London'; made up of twelve hand-colored engraved gores and two polar calottes, the equatorial graduated 0-360° and 0-180° (x2) and in hours I-XII (x2), the meridian of Greenwich ungraduated, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils, the oceans with an analemma, monsoons in the Indian Ocean, off the bulge of Africa and in Polynesia, the tracks of Captain Cook's voyages with various notes, and other notes such as Lot's Wife probably the same as Rico d'Oro, Suwarrow I.^s 4 in number disc.^d27 Sept.^r1814 by the Russian ship of this name, CHANNEL OF MOZAMBIQUE Inner Passage to India and others, both Poles with printed hour dial, Antarctica with no coastline but various notes such as Feb 17 Islands of Ice, Many Islands & fields of broken Ice and 71°10. most southern Lat. of Cap.ⁿ Cook, the continents with some nation states delicately shaded in pale green and showing rivers, mountains, caravan routes, towns and cities, the mountains shown in pictorial relief, with various notes, such as in North America Stony Mountains 3520 feet high, Snake Nation, Mission of St. Louis, Fox's farth.^tNor. 1631, the Sea seen by Mr Herne in 1771 and others, Canada with no northern coastline, Tasmania labelled VAN DIEMENS LAND disc.^d1642, the islands of New Zealand labelled EAHEI NOMAUWE and TAVAI POENAMOO;

The celestial: with cartouche inscribed, 'THE/ NEW TWELVE INCH/ British Celestial Globe,/ Containing the exact position of more than 3800 FIXD/ STARS, Nebulae, Planetary Nebulae, &c: according/ to the Latest Discoveries and Observations, of/ Dr Maskelyne, Dr Herschel and other eminent/ Astronomers, And adapted to the/ present period 1800.', with a second overlaid cartouche nearby inscribed, 'SOLD BY/ W. & S. JONES/ Holborn, London', the globe made up of twelve hand-colored engraved gores laid to the ecliptic poles, the axis through the celestial poles, the equatorial graduated in degrees, hours and minutes, the four colures graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils and twilight zone, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures, the stars shown to seven orders of magnitude plus nebulae and labelled with numbers and Greek characters, both poles with printed hour dial;

Both spheres with engraved brass hour dial and meridian circle, the papered horizon ring showing degrees of amplitude and azimuth, compass directions, and days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac, raised on four curved mahogany quadrant supports to central pillar and three inswept legs with pad feet, united by cross-stretchers to glazed compass box with blued-steel needle and brass cap and engraved paper; restorations to compasses and the celestial compass box later replaced
25 in. (63.5 cm.) high, overall

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 31 July 2001, lot 55.