A George Adams Senior 12-inch Terrestrial Table Globe, English, circa 1766,

A George Adams Senior 12-inch Terrestrial Table Globe, English, circa 1766, the sphere with hand coloured gores and cartouche printed To His Most Sacred MAJESTY GEORGE THE THIRD King of Great Britain Etc. This new Globe of the EARTH correctly laid down accordingly to ye best Observations & latest Discoveries Is most humbly Inscribed By His Majesty's most dutiful & obliged Subject & Servant G Adams Sold by G Adams Mathematical Instrument Maker to the King at Tycho Brahes Head Fleet Street London , mounted in brass meridian with engraved circle of degrees, within horizon ring applied with printed calendar and zodiac scales, supported by four mahogany brackets above turned column and tripod base with stretcher centred by magnetic compass and printed compass rose Made by G Adams in Fleet St London , 22in (56cm) high Footnotes: Provenance: Ex-Lot 54, Christie's, London, Travel, Science and Natural History , 23 September 2010. George Adams Senior (1709-1772) published a treatise in 1766 on the use of two pairs of globes that he made, of 12-inch and 18-inch diameter. The present 12-inch terrestrial globe was published before Cook's voyages in around 1766, and the coastline of New Holland (Australia) is inaccurate. Further identifiable features include Van Diemen's Land shown as part of the large land mass, and only a basic outline of part of New Zealand's coastline is depicted. Literature: see Millburn, J.R., Adams of Fleet Street , Oxford, 2000. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com