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CARY, John and William. New Terrestrial Globe, London, made and sold by J.& W. Cary, Strand March 1st 1815 with additions and corrections to 1823; New and Improved Celestial Globe...London, 1799
A fine pair of library globes, diameter 21 inches (53½cm), overall height 48 inches (122cm). Each globe made up of two sets of 18 (celestial 12) hand-coloured engraved gores, the celestial gores laid to the eclpitic poles, with elaborate constellation figures, the star positions taken from the star catalogue of Mr Wollaston. the terrestrial globe marking the tracks of Cook's voyages, and the voyages of La Perouse and Vancouver in the Pacific, the voyage of Phipps to Spitsbergen, and Pickersgill and Ross in search of the North-West Passage, both globes with original varnish (slightly discolured, a few minor abrasions). Metal pinions, brass hour and meridian circles, hand-coloured engraved horizon circles. The globes mounted on mahogany stands, in the manner of WILLIAM TROTTER OF EDINBURGH, with scrolling supports headed by leaves on ribbed and partly ring-turned shafts with concave-sided triangular bases, partly gadrooned, with moulded scrolling feet, castors, sliding compass below base of celestial globe, the terrestrial compass lacking. (Cf. a pair of matching globes sold Christies, King St, 24th November 1985, lot 54). Van der Krogt cf.Car 12; Car 15. Provenance: Luke Howard (1772-1864, one of the founder's of the science of meteorology), by descent.
A very fine pair of Regency globes, mounted on commissioned stands attributed to William Trotter of Edinburgh. William Trotter was the last member of the great firm of Young and Trotter, later joined by James Hamilton, who specialised in upholsterery and cabinet-making. After 1805 William Trotter was the sole proprietor of the business and in 1806 moved to 9 Princes St Edinburgh, where he remained until his death in 1833. Although Luke Howard lived the majority of his life in Tottenham, he kept an estate at Ackworth in Yorkshire, and may well have acquired the globes from Trotter on one of his visits to Edinburgh. (2)
A fine pair of library globes, diameter 21 inches (53½cm), overall height 48 inches (122cm). Each globe made up of two sets of 18 (celestial 12) hand-coloured engraved gores, the celestial gores laid to the eclpitic poles, with elaborate constellation figures, the star positions taken from the star catalogue of Mr Wollaston. the terrestrial globe marking the tracks of Cook's voyages, and the voyages of La Perouse and Vancouver in the Pacific, the voyage of Phipps to Spitsbergen, and Pickersgill and Ross in search of the North-West Passage, both globes with original varnish (slightly discolured, a few minor abrasions). Metal pinions, brass hour and meridian circles, hand-coloured engraved horizon circles. The globes mounted on mahogany stands, in the manner of WILLIAM TROTTER OF EDINBURGH, with scrolling supports headed by leaves on ribbed and partly ring-turned shafts with concave-sided triangular bases, partly gadrooned, with moulded scrolling feet, castors, sliding compass below base of celestial globe, the terrestrial compass lacking. (Cf. a pair of matching globes sold Christies, King St, 24th November 1985, lot 54). Van der Krogt cf.Car 12; Car 15. Provenance: Luke Howard (1772-1864, one of the founder's of the science of meteorology), by descent.
A very fine pair of Regency globes, mounted on commissioned stands attributed to William Trotter of Edinburgh. William Trotter was the last member of the great firm of Young and Trotter, later joined by James Hamilton, who specialised in upholsterery and cabinet-making. After 1805 William Trotter was the sole proprietor of the business and in 1806 moved to 9 Princes St Edinburgh, where he remained until his death in 1833. Although Luke Howard lived the majority of his life in Tottenham, he kept an estate at Ackworth in Yorkshire, and may well have acquired the globes from Trotter on one of his visits to Edinburgh. (2)