A PAIR OF REGENCY 18-INCH LIBRARY GLOBES JOHN AND WILLIAM...
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 MADE LA PEROUSE, on the COAST of TARTARY TOGETHER With Every other Improvement collected from Various Navigators and Travellers to the present time. Made & Sold by J&W Cary, Strand March. 1st 1816.,WITH CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS to 1827, 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 and la Perouse. The Antarctic with no coastline, the continents show pale orange, green and yellow shading for the nation states, with some faint remains of outlining. Details include: towns, cities, rivers, mountains and deserts. Australia shows the boundary between New Holland and New South Wales; Africa shows oases and copper mines, the Mountains of the Moon, NIME AMAY and UNKNOWN PARTS; North America shows territories of nations such as the Snake, Fall, Blackfoot and Rocky Mountain and California is labelled Unexplored Countries.
The celestial cartouche: CARY'S NEW CELESTIAL GLOBE, on which are laid down THE WHOLE of the STARS AND NEBULÆ & ect. contained in the Astronomical Works of the REV.d F. WOLLAASTON E.R.S. Dela Caille Herschel, Hevelius, Mater, Flamsteed, Bradley &tc. London Made & Sold J. & W. Cary Strand, March 1816. The sphere is made up of two sets of twelve hand-coloured gores laid to the ecliptic poles laid on a wood and plaster sphere, with the axis through the celestial poles, table giving the stars to eight orders of magnitude, with nebulæ, and a note below the cartouche explains the labelling with numbers, Greek characters, underlining and initials. The constellations are depicted by mythical beasts and figures and scientific instruments.
Both spheres are supported by mahogany stands on three inswept legs with brass castors, lacking the original stretchers with compass roses
each approx.: 451⁄2 in. (106 cm.) high; 23in. (48 cm.) diameter
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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 MADE LA PEROUSE, on the COAST of TARTARY TOGETHER With Every other Improvement collected from Various Navigators and Travellers to the present time. Made & Sold by J&W Cary, Strand March. 1st 1816.,WITH CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS to 1827, 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 and la Perouse. The Antarctic with no coastline, the continents show pale orange, green and yellow shading for the nation states, with some faint remains of outlining. Details include: towns, cities, rivers, mountains and deserts. Australia shows the boundary between New Holland and New South Wales; Africa shows oases and copper mines, the Mountains of the Moon, NIME AMAY and UNKNOWN PARTS; North America shows territories of nations such as the Snake, Fall, Blackfoot and Rocky Mountain and California is labelled Unexplored Countries.
The celestial cartouche: CARY'S NEW CELESTIAL GLOBE, on which are laid down THE WHOLE of the STARS AND NEBULÆ & ect. contained in the Astronomical Works of the REV.d F. WOLLAASTON E.R.S. Dela Caille Herschel, Hevelius, Mater, Flamsteed, Bradley &tc. London Made & Sold J. & W. Cary Strand, March 1816. The sphere is made up of two sets of twelve hand-coloured gores laid to the ecliptic poles laid on a wood and plaster sphere, with the axis through the celestial poles, table giving the stars to eight orders of magnitude, with nebulæ, and a note below the cartouche explains the labelling with numbers, Greek characters, underlining and initials. The constellations are depicted by mythical beasts and figures and scientific instruments.
Both spheres are supported by mahogany stands on three inswept legs with brass castors, lacking the original stretchers with compass roses
each approx.: 451⁄2 in. (106 cm.) high; 23in. (48 cm.) diameter
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