A new terrestrial globe [cartographic material]

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Title: A new terrestrial globe [cartographic material]
Creator: Hill, Nathaniel, 1708-1768
Contributor: Gates Collection of Globes and Books about Globes.
Published / Created: 1754.
Publication Place: London and England London
Publisher: N. Hill?
Description: BEIN Globe 45: From the library of Stephen F. Gates. Accompanied by display plate.
Terrestrial pocket globe showing the tracks of Anson's voyage, 1740-1744. Australia is drawn according to the Dutch discoveries and named New Holland.
Wooden spherical case in two parts covered with black sharkskin and lined with celestial maps of the northern and southern sky.
Extent: 1 globe : 7 cm in diam., in case 8 cm in diam
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Scale: Scale [ca. 1:186,000,000]
Coordinates: (W 180°--E 180°/N 90°--S 90°).
Language: English

Genre: Early works to 1800
Celestial charts
Early works
Globes
Celestial globes
Material: color, copper engraved gores over papier mache and plaster sphere, varnished ;
Resource Type: cartographic three dimensional form
Subject (Name): Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762.
Subject (Topic): Travel
Maps
Subjects: Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762 > Travel > Maps > Early works to 1800
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762
Travel
Gates, Stephen F. > Ownership

Access: Public
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