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Lane's Pocket Globe.

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LANE, [Thomas after Nicholas LANE]
London,
1807
Globe, 12 hand-coloured engraved paper gores, clipped at 70 degrees latitude, with two polar calottes, over a papier mâché and plaster sphere, paste-over imprint to cartouche, varnished, housed in original red calf over paste-board clamshell case, with hooks and eyes, lined with two sets of 12 hand-coloured engraved celestial gores. Diameter: 70mm (2.75 inches).
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Biography

The present globe is the work of Nicholas Lane (fl.1775-1783) whose business was particularly associated with pocket globes. This present globe, with completely new terrestrial plates, was first issued in 1779. His son, Thomas, who had taken over the buisness following his father's death, updated the plates in 1807 and sold them wholesale and retail. With retails such as George Minshull, adding their name to the globe.

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Dekker, pp.393-394; Sumira 35 and 45; Worms and Baynton-Williams, p.451.