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A PAIR OF REGENCY LIBRARY GLOBES

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£ 20 000
Auction dateClassic
09.12.2020 00:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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United Kingdom, London
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ID 470099
Lot 81 | A PAIR OF REGENCY LIBRARY GLOBES
A PAIR OF REGENCY LIBRARY GLOBES

John and William Cary, 1818

The terrestrial cartouche CARY'S NEW TERRESTRIAL GLOBE, EXHIBITING The Tracks and Discoveries made by CAPTAIN COOK: Also those of CAPTAIN VANCOUVER on the NORTH WEST COAST OF AMERICA And M. DE LA PEROUSE, on the COAST of TARTARY. TOGETHER With every other Improvement collected from Various Navigators to the present time. LONDON: Made & Sold by J.& W. Cary, Strand, March 1st.1815 below the cartouche WITH ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO 1818; the celestial cartouche CARY'S New and Improved CELESTIAL GLOBE ON WHICH Is carefully laid down THE WHOLE of the STARS AND NEBULÆ, 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 . 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.

Both comprised of two sets of eighteen hand-coloured engraved split half-gores, those of the celestia laid to the ecliptic poles, the axis through the celestial poles; engraved brass hour dials and engraved meridians sitting on stands with hand-coloured engraved paper horizon rings carrying Zodiac, calendrical scales and wind directions;

The mahogany stands with three quadrants to the central support with turned finial, the three tapering reeded legs terminating in castors and united by turned stretchers to the glazed compass boxes with blued-steel needles and engraved thirty-two point wind rose with degree scales and signed J.& W. CARY STRAND LONDON.

48 x 27 ¼ x 27 ¼in. (122 x 69 x 69cm.) each

Place of origin:Northern Europe
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