Name: A MATCHED PAIR OF LIBRARY GLOBES
Brand: J. & W. CARY, 1799 AND 1835
Price: 20000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

A MATCHED PAIR OF LIBRARY GLOBES
J. & W. Cary, 1799 and 1835
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 and Travellers to the present time. LONDON: Made & Sold by J.& W. Cary, Strand, March 1st.1816. WITH CORRECTIONS and ADDITIONS to 1835, made up of two sets of eighteen hand-coloured engraved split half-gores, with fully graduated equatorial, ecliptic and four meridians, the oceans with an analemma, many explorers' routes of Butlers, Cook, De La Perouses, Gore, Pickersgill, Ross and Vancouver given, the continents with nation states colour-outlined and fully coloured, showing cities depicted by a small building, towns, rivers, mountains in pictorial relief, marshland, caravan routes and African salt and copper mines, the Oceans in blue.
the celestial cartouche: CARY'S New and Improved CELESTIAL GLOBE, ON WHICH Is carefully laid down the whole of the STARS AND NEBULAE Contained in the ASTRONOMICAL CATALOGUE of the Rev.d Mr. WOLLASTON, F.R.S. Compiled from the Authorities of FLAMSTEED, DE LAD CAILLE, HEVELIUS, MAYER, BRADLEY, HERSCHEL, MASKELYNE &c. With an extensive number from the Works of Mifs Herschel. The whole adapted to the year 1800, and the Limits of each Constellation determined by a Boundary Line. Made & Sold by J. & W. Cary, No. 181 Strand, Mar.1, 1799.
each made up of two sets of eighteen hand-coloured engraved split half-gores, supported in gradtuated brass meridian rings with hour ring to the north poles, fitting on associated stands bearing engraved paper calendrical horizon rings, the legs united with compasses.
each 115 x 66 x 66cm.

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The Cary family firm of globe-makers was founded in the late eighteenth century by John Cary (1755-1835). The Cary family swiftly became one of the leading London globe-makers along with the family firms of Newton and Bardin; 1816 saw the introduction of an 18in. pair to their range, and in 1820, William moved into the premises at 181 Strand and John moved to 86 St James's Street. John's two sons George (c. 1788-1859) and John (1791-1852) also moved into 181 Strand in 1822 where they conducted their own business making and selling globes. When John snr. died in 1835 the company was run by Henry Gould, although it retained the trading name of William Cary until 1890, the Post Office directory recording Cary & Co. at 7 Pall Mall in 1892, and then Cary, Porter & Co. at the same address from 1894-1904.