An English pocket globe with a dial for time zones

A 3-inch (7.6cm.) diameter terrestrial globe made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, cartouche in north Pacific NEWTON’S New & Improved TERRESTRIAL GLOBE.

Published by Newton & Son 66 Chancery Lane & 3. Fleet St, Temple Bar. The equatorial graduated in degrees, the Meridian of London ungraduated, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils, cartouche in the oceans with the tracks of Cook’s 2nd and 3rd voyages, and Biscoe’s antarctic voyage 1830-31, with various dates and some notes, the continents outlined in colour and showing rivers, mountains, deserts, towns, cities and the Chinese wall, Alaska labeled Russian Territory, South Africa labeled CAFRERIA, the islands of New Zealand labeled in Maori Eahei Nomauwe and Tavai Poenamoo, Antarctica showing only the small portion of coastline for Enderby’s land. Supported in an ungraduated, half-meridian arc, sitting atop a wooden stand with an inset compass, the front dial gives the time zones of various cities, with a rotating volvelle.

A previously unrecorded stand for an early-19th-century English globe. 9 1/4 x 3 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches / 23.5 x 9.5 x 9.5 cm.