Lot 1048
PAIR OF 15 INCH REGENCY TERRESTRIAL AND CELESTIAL LIBRARY GLOBES BY J. & W. CARY, LONDON
1820/ 1824
Auction: 3 October 2012 at 13:00 BST
Description
the terrestrial globe with cartouche 'Drawn from the most recent GEOGRAPHICAL WORKS, shewing the whole of the New Discoveries with the TRACKS of the PRINCIPAL NAVIGATORS and every improvement in Geography to the Present Time. LONDON. London. Published by G. & J. Cary, St James's, St. January 4 1824'; the sphere is made up of two sets of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, graduated equatorial, ecliptic and four meridians, oceans with an analemma, seasonal passages in the Indian Ocean, and the tracks of explorers such as Cook, Vancouver, Butler, Furneaux, la Perouse, Gore, Ross and Clerke with notes and dates; the celestial globe with cartouch 'CARY'S NEW CELESTIAL GLOBE, ON WHICH are carefully laid down the whole of the STARS AND NEBULÆ contained in the Catalogues of Wollaston, Herschel, Bode, Piazzi, Zach &c. calculated to the Year 1820. Made & sold by J. & W. Cary 181 Strand, London 1818'; both globes made up of two sets of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores laid to the ecliptic poles laid on a wood and plaster sphere, with the axis through the poles, with meridian circle, supported on four quadrant supports to a central turned column with three inswept legs with castors, joined with a glazed compass between the legs (2)
Dimensions
38cm diam, 99cm high overall