THREE INCH TERRESTRIAL POCKET GLOBE BY JOHN & WILLIAM CARY
LONDON, 1791
£3,375
Auction: 5 March 2014 at 11:00 GMT
Description
comprising twelve engraved and hand-coloured gores, signed in a circular cartouche 'CARY's Pocket GLOBE agreeable to the latest DISCOVERIES, LONDON: pub'd by J&W Cary Strand Apr 1 1791', in a fishskin case, the hemispheres applied with further engraved and coloured gores one inscribed 'The World as known in CAESAR'S Time agreeable to D'Anville' , the other inscribed 'A TABLE of Latitudes & Longitudes of Places not given on this GLOBE'
Dimensions
8.5cm total diam
Footnote
Provenance:
Property from a private Scottish collection