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A good pair of early 19th-Century 12-inch diameter English table globes,
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 Jany4.1827. , made up of two sets of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, with graduated equatorial ecliptic and equinoctial colure, the oceans with an analemma and the tracks of numerous explorers with names, dates and notes, the Antarctic with no coastline shown, the continents variously and delicately outlined and shaded, showing towns, cities, rivers, mountains, deserts and caravan routes, North America showing the territories of various Indian nations, much of Africa without detail;
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 M.RGILPIN of the ROYAL SOCIETY. Made & Sold by J. & W. Cary. Strand London Jan1.1816 made up of two sets of twelve hand-coloured engraved split gores laid to the ecliptic poles, the axis through the celestial poles, with graduated equatorial, colures and ecliptic, the last with twilight zone, the pictorial constellations with stars to seven orders of magnitude with nebulae and variously labelled with initials and numbers (both globes with faint old discolouration throughout and very neat restoration under later varnish);
both with stamped brass hour dial and meridian circle, the mahogany horizon with hand-coloured engraved paper graduated in degrees of amplitude and azimuth, with compass directions, days of the month and days of the houses of the Zodiac (both with neat restorations and later varnish), raised on four curved quadrant supports to a turned column with three inswept legs with cross stretchers to a glazed compass, the engraved paper with thirty-two point wind rose and blued-steel needle -- 67cm. (26 3/8in.) high (2)
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 S
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 M.
both with stamped brass hour dial and meridian circle, the mahogany horizon with hand-coloured engraved paper graduated in degrees of amplitude and azimuth, with compass directions, days of the month and days of the houses of the Zodiac (both with neat restorations and later varnish), raised on four curved quadrant supports to a turned column with three inswept legs with cross stretchers to a glazed compass, the engraved paper with thirty-two point wind rose and blued-steel needle -- 67cm. (26 3/8in.) high (2)
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