A DUTCH 2½-INCH POCKET GLOBE
Johannes Deur, circa 1720
the globe made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, cartouche AMSTERDAM Excudit Iohannes Deur, graduated ecliptic and equator with degrees alternately highlighted in gilt, gilt tropics and polar circles, no Antarctic continent, California as an island, no coast to North-Western Canada, partial coastline depicted between Japan and America 'Terra Esonis', Australia partly delineated with some coastline to Van Diemens Land and New Zealand, rhumb lines to the oceans, contained in original fishskin case with silver clasps, inlaid with twelve celestial gores the stars picked out in gilt, given to six orders of magnitude, cartouche AMSTERDAM Excudit I.Deur.
2½in (6cm.)
A DUTCH 2½-INCH POCKET GLOBE
Johannes Deur, circa 1720
the globe made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, cartouche AMSTERDAM Excudit Iohannes Deur, graduated ecliptic and equator with degrees alternately highlighted in gilt, gilt tropics and polar circles, no Antarctic continent, California as an island, no coast to North-Western Canada, partial coastline depicted between Japan and America 'Terra Esonis', Australia partly delineated with some coastline to Van Diemens Land and New Zealand, rhumb lines to the oceans, contained in original fishskin case with silver clasps, inlaid with twelve celestial gores the stars picked out in gilt, given to six orders of magnitude, cartouche AMSTERDAM Excudit I.Deur.
2½in (6cm.)
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