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A FINE PAIR OF GEORGE III TWELVE-INCH LIBRARY TABLE GLOBES WILLIAM BARDIN AND GABRIEL WRIGHT AFTER JAMES FERGUSON LONDON, CIRCA 1782 The terrestrial sphere applied with twelve hand coloured printed gores incorporating rococo cartouche panel inscribed FERGUSON'S, TERRESTRIAL GLOBE, Improv'd by, G. WRIGHT, Wherein the new Discoveries, of the late Capt: Cook & other, eminent Navigators are, correctly laid down to, the Present Time, over text Made & Sold by W'm Bardin, N. 16 Salisbury Square, Fleet Street to North Pacific and the southern polar dial further inscribed Published according to the Act of Parliament by W. Bardin, extensively annotated with principal cities, towns, rivers, lakes, mountains and other significant topographical features, the oceans with islands, two wind roses, arrows for trade winds, and the tracks of Cook and Furneaux with innumerable notes, Antarctica with no land shown but notes such as Many Islands & Fields of Ice and a tentative Gerard's Land, Africa finely detailed with notes as to various tribes such as Jagas Anthorpophogai and HOTTENTOTS, China showing the Great Wall, North America with no northern coastline and much of the north-west without detail, with various notes such as North West Continent of America discovered by Capt. Cook, in 1780 in Alaska, and Middleton's Discoveries 1742 in Canada, Greenland with a note Here the Hills are said to be covered with Snow & the Weather temperate, the West Pacific with an analemma of the equation of time, and both the equator and ecliptic lines graduated in degrees; the celestial annotated with major constellations incorporating fanciful figural representations and stars graded in seven orders of magnitude, the equator and ecliptic both divided for degrees and the lower hemisphere with panel inscribed WRIGHT'S, New & Improv'd, CELESTIAL GLOBE, On which the Stars, are correctly laid down, from the Observations of, D. HALLEY, D. BRADLEY, & c., Made & Sold by W. Bardin, No 16, Salisbury Sqr Fleet Street, LONDON, with a note around the southern ecliptic pole Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by G. Wright & W. Bardin Jan.1.t.1782.; each sphere with poles incorporating printed hour rings and pivots for mounting within brass meridian circles divided for degrees, resting in wooden stands with matching hand coloured paper horizon rings each graduated in degrees 0-90 in two directions from both the East and West points of the compass within days-of-the-month and houses of the Zodiac with names and symbols, the stands each with four curved quadrant supports for the horizon ring over squat spiral-turned baluster upright issuing three cabriole supports. The globes and stands 62cm (24.75ins) high, 43cm (17ins) wide overall. The drawing of the present pair of globes have their origins with James Ferguson (1710-1776) who took-on the globe making business of Mary Sennex in 1755. Mary, in turn, had inherited the business from her late husband, the celebrated early English globe maker - John Sennex, on his death in 1740. James Ferguson died in 1776 and was succeeded by Benjamin Martin (worked 1738-1782) to whom Gabriel Wright was apprenticed. Wright stayed and worked for his master for eighteen years (presumably making globes) until around 1780, when he entered into an arrangement to work with the celebrated family firm of William Bardin and Son. Wright continued with, and outlived, William Bardin who died in 1798; Gabriel Wright subsequently died in 1803 leaving the business in the hands of William's son, Thomas Bardin and his sucessors. The cartouche from an earlier Ferguson globe is illustrated in Dekker, Elly and Van Der Krogt, Peter GLOBES FROM THE WESTERN WORLD where it is stated that the cartouche provides 'a neat summary of a piece of London globe history in a nutshell'. Indeed the tradition of globemaking that had been threaded down successive generations of makers from Senex to Bardin was something that Gabriel Wright was keen to trade on, hence why he labe