| A 23/4 inch pocket globe, the label pasted over the cartouche reading BHB London 1811, made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two steel axis pins, the equatorial graduated in degrees, labelled by 10degrees and the symbols of the Zodiac, ungraduated prime meridian labelled Meridian of London, tropics and polars circles shown and labelled latitude, continents and countries coloured in outline North Coast of Canada not shown, Australia named New Holland with New South Wales separately coloured pink, Tasmania shown as an Island and name Diemens Land, New Zealand shown but not Antarctic lands, Antipodes of London marked, journeys of Anson and Cook marked, showing Owhyhee Here C.Cook was killed 14 Feb. 1779. |