A new globe of the earth [cartographic material] /

• Main Author: Cushee, Leonard Compere, fl1751-1760
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: [London : Leonard Cushee 1751
• Subjects: World maps > Early works to 1800; Earth (Planet) > Maps > Early works to 1800; Globes. > lcgft; Southern Ocean; Canada; Indian; North Pole; Pivot; Alaska
• Online Access: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-glob8

Pocket-sized terrestrial globe mounted in mahogany stand. This sphere consists of two hemispheres of paper mache joined at the equator with a wooden rod within aligned with the polar axis. The orb was then coated with plaster to which 12 gores are fixed. There are two polar calottes at latitude 70 d...