AN ENGLISH 2 3/4INCH POCKET GLOBE PUBLISHED BY NATHANIEL HILL

AN ENGLISH 2 3/4INCH POCKET GLOBE PUBLISHED BY NATHANIEL HILL, 1754 the sphere covered with twelve gores of the Earth and inscribed in a rococo cartouche A NEW Terrestrial GLOBE by Nat Hill 1754, the interior of the fishskin covered case with hand coloured engravings of the heavensNathaniel Hill (fl 1746-68), Globe Maker and Engraver at the 'Globe & Sun' in Chancery Lane was apprenticed to Richard Cushee. His pocket globe was reissued by John Newton in 1783. Hill's trade card, depicting many types of philosophical instruments, is illustrated Dekker (E), Globes at Greenwich, Oxford, 1999, p52.