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A pair of Regency 18-inch diameter library globes, on ebony-inlaid mahogany stands
By John & William Cary, Circa 1816 - 1818
The terrestrial CARY'S NEW TERRESTRIAL GLOBE, EXHIBITING The Tracks and Discoveries made by CAPTAIN COOK; Also those of CAPTAIN VANCOUVER on the NORTH WEST COAST OF AMERICA And M. DE LA PEROUSE, on the COAST of TARTARY TOGETHER With every other 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 1818, made up of two sets of eighteen hand-coloured engraved split half-gores, with fully graduated equatorial, ecliptic and four meridians, the oceans with an analemma, many explorers' tracks and numerous notes and dates, Antarctica with no land shown but Firm Fields and Vast Mountains of Ice 71.10 Highest South Lat of Capt.Cook and other notes, the continents with nation states faintly colour-outlined, showing cities depicted by a small building, towns, rivers, mountains in pictorial relief, marshland, caravan routes and African salt and copper mines, with numerous notes and Canada with no northern coastline;
the celestial CARY'S NEW CELESTIAL GLOBE on which are laid down THE WHOLE of the STARS, NEBULÆ &c, 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 March 1816, made up of two sets of eighteen hand-coloured engraved split half-gores laid to the ecliptic poles, the axis through the celestial poles, with fully graduated equatorial, ecliptic with twilight zone and four colures, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures and scientific instruments, with dotted boundaries, the stars shown to nine orders of magnitude with doubles, clusters and nebulae and labelled with Greek and Roman characters and Arabic numerals denoting their source, with an explanation beneath the cartouche;
both spheres with engraved brass hour dial and stamped meridian, the hand-coloured engraved paper horizon ring with degree (x2), Zodiac and calendar scales and wind directions, the mahogany stand with ebony stringing to the lower edge of the horizon lip, three quadrants to the meridian support with turned inverted finial, the three tapering reeded legs terminating in castors and united by turned stretchers to the glazed compass box with blued-steel needle and engraved thirty-two point wind rose with degree scales and signed J.& W. CARY STRAND LONDON, one stand with three stretchers replaced, restorations, each with a later paper property label for Princess Margaret
44in. (111.8cm.) high (2)
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