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BY J & W CARY, LONDON, 1812/1816
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A fine pair of 12-inch (30.5cm.) diameter table globes
by J & W Cary, London, 1812/1816
The terrestrial with cartouche reading CARY'S NEW TERRESTRIAL GLOBE DELINEATED From the best Authorities extant; Exhibiting the different tracks of CAPTAIN COOK and the New Discoveries made by him and other Circumnavigators. LONDON: Made & Sold by J.& W. CARY, Strand Jany.1st.1812, made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, the equatorial graduated in degrees, hours and minutes in both directions, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils, the Meridian of Greenwich ungraduated, the oceans with an analemma and trade winds, and numerous tracks of exploratory voyages, including those of Cook, La Perouse, Vancouver and others, the Sandwich Islands with a note reading Here Capt. Cook was killed by the Natives [...] 1779 & Capt Clerke succeeds to the Chief Command, Kamchatka with a note reading Harb. Of St Peter & St Paul here Cap. Clerke was interred July 29 1779 & succeeded in the Command by Capt Gore, and various other notes, the Antarctic with only a small section of coastline, the continents with nation states variously and delicately outlined or shaded in green, red, yellow and orange and showing rivers, mountains, deserts, towns, cities and the Great Wall of China, North America with no northern coastline, showing the territories of various native Indian tribes including the Snake Indians, Dog Rib.d Inds and others, Africa showing Desert or Village of Negroes, LAND of DATES, TUAT or TWAT, Little Nimiquas and HOTTENTOTS, Australia with little detail apart from several notes concerning date of discovery, Papua New Guinea with no southern coastline (several areas of redrawing with little loss of detail, some small areas of discolouration);
the celestial with cartouche reading CARY'S NEW CELESTIAL GLOBE. ON WHICH are correctly laid down upwards of 3500 Stars Selected from the most accurate observations and calculated for the Year 1800. With the extent of each Constellation precisely defined by MR GILPIN of the ROYAL SOCIETY Made & Sold by J.& W. Cary. Strand London Jan1.1816, made up of twelve delicately hand-coloured engraved gores laid to the ecliptic poles, the equatorial graduated in degrees and in hours in both directions, the ecliptic graduated in days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac, the four colures graduated in degrees, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures and scientific instruments, the stars shown to seven orders of magnitude with nebulae and labelled with numbers or Greek letters (several areas of neat redrawing);
Both spheres with engraved brass hour dial graduated I-XII (x2) and stamped brass meridian circle divided in four quadrants, the papered horizon graduated in degrees in both directions, days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac with names and sigils, and also showing wind directions, raised on four baluster turned mahogany legs united by turned cross-stretchers
17½in. (44.5cm.) high (2)
by J & W Cary, London, 1812/1816
The terrestrial with cartouche reading CARY'S NEW TERRESTRIAL GLOBE DELINEATED From the best Authorities extant; Exhibiting the different tracks of CAPTAIN COOK and the New Discoveries made by him and other Circumnavigators. LONDON: Made & Sold by J.& W. CARY, Strand Jany.1st.1812, made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, the equatorial graduated in degrees, hours and minutes in both directions, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils, the Meridian of Greenwich ungraduated, the oceans with an analemma and trade winds, and numerous tracks of exploratory voyages, including those of Cook, La Perouse, Vancouver and others, the Sandwich Islands with a note reading Here Capt. Cook was killed by the Natives [...] 1779 & Capt Clerke succeeds to the Chief Command, Kamchatka with a note reading Harb. Of St Peter & St Paul here Cap. Clerke was interred July 29 1779 & succeeded in the Command by Capt Gore, and various other notes, the Antarctic with only a small section of coastline, the continents with nation states variously and delicately outlined or shaded in green, red, yellow and orange and showing rivers, mountains, deserts, towns, cities and the Great Wall of China, North America with no northern coastline, showing the territories of various native Indian tribes including the Snake Indians, Dog Rib.d Inds and others, Africa showing Desert or Village of Negroes, LAND of DATES, TUAT or TWAT, Little Nimiquas and HOTTENTOTS, Australia with little detail apart from several notes concerning date of discovery, Papua New Guinea with no southern coastline (several areas of redrawing with little loss of detail, some small areas of discolouration);
the celestial with cartouche reading CARY'S NEW CELESTIAL GLOBE. ON WHICH are correctly laid down upwards of 3500 Stars Selected from the most accurate observations and calculated for the Year 1800. With the extent of each Constellation precisely defined by MR GILPIN of the ROYAL SOCIETY Made & Sold by J.& W. Cary. Strand London Jan1.1816, made up of twelve delicately hand-coloured engraved gores laid to the ecliptic poles, the equatorial graduated in degrees and in hours in both directions, the ecliptic graduated in days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac, the four colures graduated in degrees, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures and scientific instruments, the stars shown to seven orders of magnitude with nebulae and labelled with numbers or Greek letters (several areas of neat redrawing);
Both spheres with engraved brass hour dial graduated I-XII (x2) and stamped brass meridian circle divided in four quadrants, the papered horizon graduated in degrees in both directions, days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac with names and sigils, and also showing wind directions, raised on four baluster turned mahogany legs united by turned cross-stretchers
17½in. (44.5cm.) high (2)