A miniature terrestrial globe, circa 1830, showing Cook’s third voyage.

[Nuremberg : Bauer family, circa 1830]. Miniature terrestrial globe, two-and-a-half inches in diameter, original outline hand colouring, metal pins, housed in card box, the label on the lid with an image of a cartographer (the lower part of the case reconstructed); a fine copy signed MPS (the Bauer family).

A charming early nineteenth-century terrestrial globe by the famous German globe-making family of Bauer, the text in English. Beneath the Cape of Good Hope is the inscription Cook’s journey around the earth with a dotted line tracking the explorer’s third circumnavigation. The continent of New Holland is inscribed Government English, ‘Sidney’ and Botany Bay are marked on the east Coast, with Western Australia captioned Edels Land, named after the discoveries of Frederik de Houtman and Jakob Dedel on the Dordrecht in 1619. Hawaii is labelled as the Sandwich Islands, as it was known until around the 1840s.