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BY GEORGE AND JOHN CARY, LONDON, 1830
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An English 12-inch diameter library globe
By George and John Cary, London, 1830
CARY'S NEW TERRESTRIAL GLOBE DELINEATED From the best Authorities extant; Exhibiting the late Discoveries towards the NORTH POLE and every improvement in Geography to the present Time. LONDON: Made & Sold by G. & J. CARY, 86, St James's Street. Jan..4 1830, made up of two sets of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, the equatorial graduated in degrees of amplitude and azimuth, hours and minutes, the ecliptic graduated in degrees 1-30 (x12) with sigils for the houses of the Zodiac, the Greenwich meridian ungraduated, the equinoctial colure graduated in degrees, the oceans showing an analemma, trade winds and the tracks of numerous explorers, with numerous notes, the Antarctic with no land shown but various notes such as Jan. 17 1773 Many Islands & firm fields of Ice, the continents with some nation states shaded in pale pink, green or brown and showing fine detail of rivers, mountains, towns and cities, much of central Africa with no detail but showing a note for JAGAS and other Tribes of whom very little is known, China showing the Great Wall, North America showing Indian nations such as Snake Ind. and Chimnapuns, California labelled Unexplored Countries, Alaska labelled RUSSIAN AMERICA (numerous abrasions and discolourations and old repairs, particularly to the South Pole), with an engraved brass hour dial and stamped brass meridian circle, the hand-coloured engraved paper horizon showing degrees of amplitude and azimuth, days of the houses of the Zodiac, and days of the month, raised on four curved mahogany quadrant supports to a central baluster-turned column with three inswept legs terminating in flattened tulip-shaped feet, the glazed compass held between with a thirty-two point wind rose and blued-steel needle
88cm. high
By George and John Cary, London, 1830
CARY'S NEW TERRESTRIAL GLOBE DELINEATED From the best Authorities extant; Exhibiting the late Discoveries towards the NORTH POLE and every improvement in Geography to the present Time. LONDON: Made & Sold by G. & J. CARY, 86, St James's Street. Jan..4 1830, made up of two sets of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, the equatorial graduated in degrees of amplitude and azimuth, hours and minutes, the ecliptic graduated in degrees 1-30 (x12) with sigils for the houses of the Zodiac, the Greenwich meridian ungraduated, the equinoctial colure graduated in degrees, the oceans showing an analemma, trade winds and the tracks of numerous explorers, with numerous notes, the Antarctic with no land shown but various notes such as Jan. 17 1773 Many Islands & firm fields of Ice, the continents with some nation states shaded in pale pink, green or brown and showing fine detail of rivers, mountains, towns and cities, much of central Africa with no detail but showing a note for JAGAS and other Tribes of whom very little is known, China showing the Great Wall, North America showing Indian nations such as Snake Ind. and Chimnapuns, California labelled Unexplored Countries, Alaska labelled RUSSIAN AMERICA (numerous abrasions and discolourations and old repairs, particularly to the South Pole), with an engraved brass hour dial and stamped brass meridian circle, the hand-coloured engraved paper horizon showing degrees of amplitude and azimuth, days of the houses of the Zodiac, and days of the month, raised on four curved mahogany quadrant supports to a central baluster-turned column with three inswept legs terminating in flattened tulip-shaped feet, the glazed compass held between with a thirty-two point wind rose and blued-steel needle
88cm. high
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