A GEORGE III 21-INCH CELESTIAL LIBRARY GLOBE
A GEORGE III 21-INCH CELESTIAL LIBRARY GLOBE

J. & W. CARY, LONDON. CIRCA 1800

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A GEORGE III 21-INCH CELESTIAL LIBRARY GLOBE
J. & W. CARY, LONDON. CIRCA 1800
Made up of engraved paper gores labelled CARY'S New and Improved CELESTIAL GLOBE ON WHICH Is carefully laid down the whole of the STARS & NEBULA, Contained in the ASTRONOMICAL CATALOGUE of the REVD. Mr. WOLLASTON, F.R.S., Compiled from the Authorities of FLAMSTEED, DE LA CAILLE, HEVELIUS, MAYER, BRADLEY, HERSCHEL, MASKELYNE & C. With an extensive number from the works of Miss Herschel, The whole adapted to the year 1800, and the Limits of each Constellation determined by a boundary line. London Made & sold by J.& W. Cary, no. 181 Strand Mar 1 1799, engraved brass meridian and hour ring, engraved paper horizon on a mahogany veneered stand with turned legs and stretchers
71 cm. high x 74 cm. diam. overall; globe 21 inch/53 cm. diam.

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John Cary in partnership with his brother William were one of the foremost London map and globe sellers of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. They built up a thriving and prosperous business, both as instrument makers and map publishers. Their first globes were published in 1791 and they were soon producing globes at four different diameters.

George and John Cary, sons of John Cary Senior (d. 1835), continued the family globe-making business started by John and William Cary in 1791. Together with the firms of Newton and Bardin, globes made by the Carys accounted for the majority of globes produced in England during the early 19th Century (see 'The World in Your Hands', Exhibition Catalogue, London, Christie's, 1994, pp. 64-5).