GLOBE - MORTIER & COVENS & Fils.
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GLOBE - MORTIER & COVENS & Fils. Nouveau globe terrestre dressé d'après les rélations les plus recentes, et addujetties aux observations astronomiques, avec les routes des differentes, voijages faites autour du monde par les Cap.t Cook, la Perouse & c. & celle du Cap. Phipps vers la Pole septentrionale par C. Covens à Amst. chez Mortier Covens & Fils geographes. Gravé par C. van Baarsel. Amst., Mortier, Covens & Fils, (ca. 1802). Diameter 31 cm, 12 inches. Charming terrestrial globe issued by Covens and made by the globemakery of Valk. The scale is ca. 1: 41000000. ''The map is updated to reflect all the new discoveries up to that of the Bass Strait (between Tasmania and Australia, 1797-8). The routes of the explorers are drawn in, as mentioned in the title.'' (Van der Krogt).
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Fine condition.- (Restored with loss of text mainly in Pacific part). Van der Krogt, Globi Neerlandici, Valk 2, state C1
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GLOBE - MORTIER & COVENS & Fils.
Estimate €7,000 - €9,000
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