Pair 12-inch English Library Globes

SMITH, Charles & Son (fl.1827-1850). Smith's Terrestrial Globe & Smith's Celestial Globe. London: 1830.

Pair of library globe on carved mahogany stands. The terrestrial: made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, the oceans with an analemma and showing the tracks of Cook, Clerke, Gore, Vancouver and La Perouse with numerous dates, the Sandwich Islands showing Karakooa B. where Capt. Cook was killed in 1779, Antarctica with no land shown but a note for Capt. J. Weddell R.N. reached this point 1823 and I. Pierre and I. Alexander, the continents with some nation states delicately shaded in olive green, and some others outlined in orange, showing mountains, rivers, towns and cities, China with the Great Wall, Australia largely blank in the interior, New Guinea lacking some coastline, Tasmania labelled VAN DIEMEN'S LAND, the islands of New Zealand labelled EAHEI NOMAEWE and TOVAI POEN AMOO, the interior of Africa largely blank but elsewhere with notes such as Stony Desert, Oasis of Taudeny and Land of Dates, North America shown with California as Baja California, California as it is now labelled PLAINS OF NUESTRA SONORA DE LA PAZ, with notes for native tribes Stony Indians, Snake Ins, Blackfoot Ins, COPPER INDIAN LAND and others, elsewhere a small pictorial representation of Two High Hills and a location near Vancouver Island named Village of Rascals, Alaska labelled RUSSIAN AMERICA and a note Boundy Settled 1825, and Canada and Greenland with no northern coastline.

The celestial: made up of two sets of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores laid to the ecliptic poles, the equatorial graduated in degrees, hours and minutes, the colures graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures and scientific instruments with names in Latin, the stars to nine orders of magnitude with nebulae, a note beneath the cartouche providing a key to their labelling by Greek characters, astronomers' initials or underlined

Both sitting in graduated brass meridian rings with hour rings to north poles, engraved hand-coloured paper hoirzon rings supported on carved mahogany tripod stands. 910 x 435 x 435mm.

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