1840 Globe

Globe from 1840 showing Canadian discoveries up for auction
By Randy Boswell , Canwest News ServiceJuly 4, 2009

It was commissioned in 1840 for an Oxford University library, a $75 globe depicting "the present state of the known world" just three years after a young Queen Victoria had taken the throne.

But when the metre-wide, 169-year-old relic is auctioned July 7 in London, it's expected to fetch a whopping $50,000 - largely because of a map-maker's notations along Canada's northern coastline that suggest the globe may be a one-of-a-kind cartographic creation.

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Posted by: Elise Chodat, Bibliographic Systems Librarian, INAC, Ottawa