Joseph Moxon, Terrestrial Pocket Globe, 1679

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[A pocket terrestrial globe.] Londini sumptibus J. Moxon. 1 globe: hand coloured, 7 cm. in diameter.

This is the ‘pocket globe’ of Joseph Moxon (1627–1691) which first appeared in the 1670s. In a catalogue of items advertised for sale, Moxon describes the arrangement as ‘Concave hemispheres of the starry orb, which serves for a case to a terrestrial globe of 3˝ diameter made portable for the pocket.’ The terrestrial pocket globe shows the tracks of Sir Francis Drake and Thomas Cavendish, and California is depicted as an island.

This model was created for a 2020 British Library project to digitise globes from its historic map collection. For enquiries regarding further re-use of this model please contact licensing@bl.uk.

For more information see http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01004975913