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A fine pair of early 19th-century 18-inch English Library Globes
J. & W. Cary, London, 1816
The terrestrial CARY'S NEW TERRESTRIAL GLOBE EXHIBITING The Tracks and Discoveries made by CAPTAIN COOK; Also those of CAPTAIN VANCOUVER on the NORT WEST COAST OF AMERICA And M.DE LA PEROUSE, on the COAST of TARTARY TOGETHER With every Improvement collected from Various Navigators and Travellers to the present time. LONDON. Made & Sold by J. & W. Cary, Strand March 1st 1816. with corrections and additions to 1820., made up of two sets of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores on a wood and plaster sphere, with graduated equatorial and ecliptic and four meridians, the oceans with an analemma and the tracks of Cook, Vancouver, Butler, Furneaux, la Perouse, Gore, Ross and Clerke with notes and dates, Antarctica with no coastline, but notes reading Islands & Firm Fields of Ice and 71010' the most Southn Latitude of Capt.Cook and Vast Islands and firm Fields of Ice, the continents with nation states shaded pale orange, green and yellow with some faint remains of outlining and details including towns, cities, rivers, mountains, deserts and the great Wall of China, Australia showing the boundary between New Holland and New South Wales, Africa with oases and copper mines, the Mountains of the Moon, NIME AMAY and UNKNOWN PARTS, North America showing territories of nations such as the Snake, Fall, Blackfoot, Rocky Mountain and Dog Rib Indians, and California labelled New Albion;
the celestial CARY'S NEW CELESTIAL GLOBE, ON WHICH are carefully laid down the whole of the STARS AND NEBULAE contained in the Astronomical Works of the REVd F. Wollaston, F.R.S., De La Caille, Herschel, Hevelius, Mayer, Flamsteed, Bradley &c. London: Made & Sold by J. & W. Cary Strand, London March 1816., made up of two sets of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores laid to the ecliptic poles on a wood and plaster sphere, 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 to eight orders of magnitude and nebulae, and exlpanatory note for the labelling according to the source catalogue;
both spheres with engraved brass hour dial and meridian circle and hand-coloured engraved horizon paper with degree, calendar and Zodiac scales applied to a mahogany ring with red-painted edge, on four quadrant supports to a central turned column with three inswept legs with castors.
44 in. (111.8 cm.) high
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