A pair of 19th-Century English 15-inch diameter library globes

A pair of 19th-Century English 15-inch diameter library globes

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A pair of 19th-Century English 15-inch diameter library globes
CARY'S NEW TERRESTRIAL GLOBE Drawn from the most recent GEOGRAPHICAL WORKS shewing the whole of the New Discoveries with the TRACKS of the PRINCIPAL NAVIGATORS and every improvement in Geography to the present Time. LONDON: London Publi [...] 7th1830, a cartouche overlaid over the missing section for T. MASON Essex Bridge Dublin, made up of two sets of tweve hand-coloured engraved half-gores, with graduated equatorial, ecliptic and four meridians, the oceans with an analemma, notes on ships' passages in the Indian Ocean and the tracks of Cook, Clerke, Butler, La Perouse, Vancouver, Furneaux, Ross and The Resolution with dates and some notes such as Harbour of S.tPeter & S.tPaul Here Cap.tClerke was buried & succeeded in the command by Cap.tGore, the Antarctic with no land shown but a note on Cook's southernmost latitude and Islands & Firm Fields of Ice, the continents with nation states delicately outlined and shaded in orange, yellow and green and well detailed with towns, cities, rivers, mountains in pictorial relief, lakes, deserts and caravan routes, the interior of Africa largely empty and marked Unknown Parts, North America with a section of northern coastline lacking and showing the territories of various indigenous nations such as the Dog Rib, Rocky Mountain, Snake and Fall indians, California labelled NEW ALBION with Unexplored Countries (numerous old abrasions and small areas of varnish loss and dirt, with some minor paper loss);
CARY'S NEW CELESTIAL GLOBE ON WHICH are carefully laid down the whole of the STARS AND NEBULÆ caontained in the Catalogues of Wollaston, Herschel, Bode, Piazzi, Zach &c. calculated to the Year 1820 Made & Sold by J.& W. Cary n.o181 Strand London 1818 made up of two sets of twelve hand-coloured engraved half-gores laid to the ecliptic poles, the axis through the celestial poles, with graduated equatorial, fuor colures and ecliptic with twilight zone, the pictorial constellations bounded by dotted lines with stars to eight orders of magnitude and variously labelled with characters and letters according to the catalogue of their source (some old abrasions and varnish loss);
both with engraved brass hour dial and meridian circle, the hand-coloured engraved horizon paper with degrees of amplitude and azimuth, compass directions, days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac, on a mahogany-veneered horizon raised on three elegantly-shaped inswept mahogany legs with triform cross-stretcher to the meridian support and concave triform base on castors incorporating a glazed compass box with engraved windrose, one by Nweton & Son, the other by J.& W. Cary (old water damage, needles lacking)
39½in. (100.3cm.) high (2)

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