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G & J CARY, London
Cary's New Terrestrial Globe delineated from the best authorities extant, exhibiting the late discoveries towards the North Pole and every improvement in geography to the present time, made and sold by G & J Cary, 86 St. James's Street, January the 4th 1843, and Cary's New Celestial Globe on which are correctly laid down upwards of 3,500 stars ... with the extent of each constellation precisely defined by Mr. Gilpin of the Royal Society, made and sold by J & W Cary Strand London January the 1st 1816
A pair of 12-inch diameter table globes, each with twelve hand-coloured paper gores, the terrestrial showing the voyages of discovery of Captain Cook, Lieutenant Pickersgill, Gore and other adventurers (both globes with some surface abrasions and minor paper loss, some cracking at the Poles, the terrestrial with a small hole above the antarctic circle), both globes with engraved hour circles and meridian rings, printed horizon circles, on table stands, the four baluster-turned supports united by stretchers -- 18-inches (45.7cm.) high

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