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J.& W. CARY, LONDON, 1816
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A pair of 19th-Century 12-inch English table globes
J.& W. Cary, London, 1816
the terrestrial 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, Sept 2nd 1816 made up of twelve hand-coloured, finely engraved gores, with graduated equatorial, elciptic and equinoctial colure, the Greenwich meridian ungraduated, with the tracks of numerous explorers including those of Cook, Gore and Vancouver, Antarctica with no coastline shown but some notes regarding Cook's observations in the area, the continents with boundaries in red and some nation states shaded in green, showing rivers, mountains, deserts, towns and cities, Alaska labelled RUSSIAN AMERICA, north-eastern Canada and Greenland with no northern coastline, Africa with little detail, particularly to the interior, Australia with little detail aside from around the coastline, Tasmania labelled Van Diemens Land, the islands of New Zealand labelled in Maori TOVYPOENAMMOO and Eheinomauwe (old scratches and minor repairs to the whole of the globe);
the celestial 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 Jan 1 1816, made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores laid to the ecliptic poles, the axis through the celestial poles, with graduated equatorial, colures and ecliptic with twilight zone, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures and scientific instruments, with stars shown to seven orders of magnitude with nebulae, labelled with numbers, initials and Greek letters.
both spheres with engraved brass hour dial and stamped brass meridian circle, hand-coloured engraved paper horizon ring with degree, calendar and Zodiac scales (some scratches and abrasions throughout), the mahogany ring on four curved quadrant supports to a turned central pillar with three cabriole legs terminating in pad feet with (empty) compass boxes
24¾ in. (62.9 cm.) high (2)
J.& W. Cary, London, 1816
the terrestrial 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, Sept 2nd 1816 made up of twelve hand-coloured, finely engraved gores, with graduated equatorial, elciptic and equinoctial colure, the Greenwich meridian ungraduated, with the tracks of numerous explorers including those of Cook, Gore and Vancouver, Antarctica with no coastline shown but some notes regarding Cook's observations in the area, the continents with boundaries in red and some nation states shaded in green, showing rivers, mountains, deserts, towns and cities, Alaska labelled RUSSIAN AMERICA, north-eastern Canada and Greenland with no northern coastline, Africa with little detail, particularly to the interior, Australia with little detail aside from around the coastline, Tasmania labelled Van Diemens Land, the islands of New Zealand labelled in Maori TOVYPOENAMMOO and Eheinomauwe (old scratches and minor repairs to the whole of the globe);
the celestial 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 Jan 1 1816, made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores laid to the ecliptic poles, the axis through the celestial poles, with graduated equatorial, colures and ecliptic with twilight zone, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures and scientific instruments, with stars shown to seven orders of magnitude with nebulae, labelled with numbers, initials and Greek letters.
both spheres with engraved brass hour dial and stamped brass meridian circle, hand-coloured engraved paper horizon ring with degree, calendar and Zodiac scales (some scratches and abrasions throughout), the mahogany ring on four curved quadrant supports to a turned central pillar with three cabriole legs terminating in pad feet with (empty) compass boxes
24¾ in. (62.9 cm.) high (2)