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J. & W. CARY, 1800
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A PAIR OF GEORGE III 12-INCH GLOBES
J. & W. CARY, 1800
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...1800 and New Celestial Globe...calculated for the Year 1800...By Mr. Gilpin of the Royal Society...Made & Sold by J.&W.Cary Strand London Jan 1 1800; each made of 24 engraved half gores, those of the celestial laid to the ecliptic poles, with graduated equatorial ecliptic and equinoctial colure, the oceans with an analemma and the tracks of numerous explorers with names, dates and notes, the Antarctic with no coastline shown, North America showing the territories of various Indian nations, much of Africa without detail, the celestial giving stars to seven orders of magnitude; both suppoted on engraved brass merdians with paper horizons rings supported on mahogany tripod stand with turned shaft, cabriole legs united with stretchers and later compasses.
24in. (61cm.) high (2)
J. & W. CARY, 1800
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...1800 and New Celestial Globe...calculated for the Year 1800...By Mr. Gilpin of the Royal Society...Made & Sold by J.&W.Cary Strand London Jan 1 1800; each made of 24 engraved half gores, those of the celestial laid to the ecliptic poles, with graduated equatorial ecliptic and equinoctial colure, the oceans with an analemma and the tracks of numerous explorers with names, dates and notes, the Antarctic with no coastline shown, North America showing the territories of various Indian nations, much of Africa without detail, the celestial giving stars to seven orders of magnitude; both suppoted on engraved brass merdians with paper horizons rings supported on mahogany tripod stand with turned shaft, cabriole legs united with stretchers and later compasses.
24in. (61cm.) high (2)
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