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A William IV Fifteen-Inch Terrestrial Globe, by Newton & Son, London, dated 1831
No reserve
Lot Closed
April 16, 08:13 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
On mahogany stand with tripod base with cross stretcher and compass and applied with engraved brass meridian, the cartouche inscribed:
Newton's New and Improved Terrestrial Globe accurately delineated from the oberservations of the most esteemed Navigators and Travellers to the present time Manufactured by Newton & Son, 56 Chancery Lane.
London published Febr. 1ST., 1831
height 41 in.; diameter overall 21 in.
104 cm.; 53.5 cm.
The firm of Newton & Son was founded by the important London globe maker John Newton (1759-1844), who published his first globe in 1783, and developed a particular specialty in pocket globes. Newton was originally based at the Globe & Sun at 128 Chancery Lane, moving to 97 Chancery Lane in 1803 and then 66 Chancery Lane in 1817. After 1800 Newton began producing library globes, and in c.1818 was joined by his son William (1786-1861), trading under the name J. and W. Newton until the 1830s, when the firm took on an associate, Miles Berry. In 1841 William's son William Edward Newton (1818-1879) joined the family business, after which the partnership with Berry was dissolved, and the company traded under the name Newton & Son until the 1880s. Newton's participated in the Great Exhibition of 1851, where they were awarded a medal for a manuscript terrestrial globe of six feet diameter.
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