Nicholas Lane's Pocket 3-InchTerrestrial and Celestial Pocket Gl

Made up of twelve colored gores on plaster spheres, with metal pins at both poles, in fish-skin-covered pasteboard cases with red-painted rims and two sets of twelve hand-colored gores and two polar calottes on the inside. – 1) Earth globe, c. 1825, with cartouche: "Lane's Improved Globe, London", continents outlined in green, monsoons marked in the China Sea and Indian Ocean, South Africa designated "Country of the Hotentot", Tasmania still as "Dimens Land", the place of Cook's death is named Owhyhee and noted "Here C. Cook was Killed. 14 Febr. 1779", the concave interior of the case inscribed with the celestial charts of the northern and southern skies and symbols of the zodiac, case with 3 brass hook-and-eye catches. – And: 2) Celestial globe, unmarked, probably pre-1800, external projection, hand-colored gores depicting the starry sky as seen from the outside, with pictorial representation of the constellations, case depicting the sky in geocentric projection, with one (of two) hook-and-eye catches.

布雷克拍品等级是为了方便竞买人判断拍卖品的成色而设置的。布雷克等级用1到6级来标注外观和功能的成色，(从非常好到非常差)。 在目录图册里用括号里的2个数字来表示，前一个数字表示外观成色的级别，后一个数字表示功能成色的级别。如(3/2)表示外观成色是3(满意的)，功能成色2(好)。 成色 定义参照下列标准： 1 - 非常好 (未使用过，没有使用痕迹) 2 - 好 (新，极少的使用痕迹) 3 - 满意的 (普通的使用痕迹) 4 - 及格的 (明显的使用痕迹，某个非主要部件是后配的) 5 - 有缺陷的 (极明显的使用痕迹, 某个主要部件是后配的，功能上有缺陷，需要修理) 6 - 非常差 (严重破损, 缺少重要部件)