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The terrestrial cartouche: CARY'S NEW TERRESTRIAL GLOBE DELINEATED From the best Authorities extant: Exhibiting the different Tracks of CAPTAIN COOK. and the New Discoveries made by him and other Circumnavigators. LONDON. Made & Sold by J & W Cary, Strand Sept 2nd 1816.

The celestial cartouche: CARY'S NEW CELESTIAL GLOBE, ON WHICH are laid down upwards of 3500 Stars Selected from the most accurate observations and calculated for the Year 1800. With the extent of each Constellation precisely defined. By Mr Gilpin of the ROYAL SOCIETY. Made & Sold J. & W. Cary Strand, London June 1816

Both spheres are supported by mahogany stands on three inswept legs with brass castors, joined by stretchers with compass roses
Each 25 in. (64 cm.) high.; 17 in. (43 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Bonhams, Knightsbridge, 19 September 2018, lot 33.
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