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Auction archive: Lot number 42

CARY, George & John, London, 1816/1829

Auction 29.11.2000
29 Nov 2000
Estimate
£9,000 - £12,000
ca. US$12,837 - US$17,116
Price realised:
£18,800
ca. US$26,816
Auction archive: Lot number 42

CARY, George & John, London, 1816/1829

Auction 29.11.2000
29 Nov 2000
Estimate
£9,000 - £12,000
ca. US$12,837 - US$17,116
Price realised:
£18,800
ca. US$26,816
Beschreibung:

CARY, George & John, London, 1816/1829 A fine pair of 12-inch (30.5cm.) diameter table globes, the terrestrial CARY'S NEW TERRESTRIAL GLOBE DELINEATED From the best Authorities extant; Exhibiting the late Discoveries towards the NORTH POLE, and every improvement in Geography to the present Time. LONDON. Made & Sold by G. & J. CARY, 86, S t James's Street Jan y4 1829 made up of twelve hand-coloured, finely engraved gores, the equatorial graduated in degrees of amplitude and azimuth, hours and minutes, the meridian of Greenwich ungraduated, the equinoctial colure graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils, the oceans with an analemma, trade winds, and the tracks of numerous explorers including those of Cook, Gore, Clerke, Vancouver, De La Perouse, Pickersgill, Ross and Phipps, with numerous notes and dates and other notes such as I. Grande its existence doubtful , Gough's I. according to Cap. t Hodgson 1783 and many others, Antarctica with no coastline shown but some notes regarding Cook's observations in the area, the continents with boundaries in red and some nation states delicately shaded in green, showing rivers, mountains, deserts, towns and cities, Alaska labelled RUSSIAN AMERICA , north-eastern Canada and Greenland with no northern coastline, Africa with little detail, particularly to the interior, a note there reading JAGAS and other Tribes of whom very little is known , Australia with little detail aside from around the coastline, Tasmania labelled Van Diemens Land , the islands of New Zealand labelled in Maori TOVYPOENAMMOO and Eheinomauwe , the North Pole with unengraved brass hour dial ( some old minor blemishes, old scratches and minor repairs to the whole of the Antarctic area ); the celestial CARY'S NEW CELESTIAL GLOBE, ON WHICH are correctly 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 M. rGILPIN of the ROYAL SOCIETY. Made & Sold by J. & W. Cary. Strand London Jan 1 1816 , made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores laid to the ecliptic poles, the axis through the celestial poles, the equatorial graduated in hours and minutes in both directions and in degrees, the colures graduated in degreees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures and scientific instruments, the stars shown to seven orders of magnitude with nebulae and labelled with numbers, initials and Greek letters, with engraved brass hour dial ( some old minor blemishes and repaired cracks, the south polar area with scratches and repairs ), both spheres with stamped brass meridian circle, the mahogany horizon with hand-coloured engraved paper ring graduated in degrees of amplitude and azimuth, days of the houses of the Zodiac and of the days of the month, with compass directions ( some old minor scratches and abrasions ), on four mahogany quadrant supports to turned central pillar with three cabriole legs terminating in pad feet, the original uncoloured engraved compass mounted beneath on cross stretchers, with blued-iron needle marked N and S with brass cap, and glazed cover -- 24½in. (62.2cm.) high See Colour Illustration and Details (previous page) (2)

Auction archive: Lot number 42
Auction:
Datum:
29 Nov 2000
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

CARY, George & John, London, 1816/1829 A fine pair of 12-inch (30.5cm.) diameter table globes, the terrestrial CARY'S NEW TERRESTRIAL GLOBE DELINEATED From the best Authorities extant; Exhibiting the late Discoveries towards the NORTH POLE, and every improvement in Geography to the present Time. LONDON. Made & Sold by G. & J. CARY, 86, S t James's Street Jan y4 1829 made up of twelve hand-coloured, finely engraved gores, the equatorial graduated in degrees of amplitude and azimuth, hours and minutes, the meridian of Greenwich ungraduated, the equinoctial colure graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils, the oceans with an analemma, trade winds, and the tracks of numerous explorers including those of Cook, Gore, Clerke, Vancouver, De La Perouse, Pickersgill, Ross and Phipps, with numerous notes and dates and other notes such as I. Grande its existence doubtful , Gough's I. according to Cap. t Hodgson 1783 and many others, Antarctica with no coastline shown but some notes regarding Cook's observations in the area, the continents with boundaries in red and some nation states delicately shaded in green, showing rivers, mountains, deserts, towns and cities, Alaska labelled RUSSIAN AMERICA , north-eastern Canada and Greenland with no northern coastline, Africa with little detail, particularly to the interior, a note there reading JAGAS and other Tribes of whom very little is known , Australia with little detail aside from around the coastline, Tasmania labelled Van Diemens Land , the islands of New Zealand labelled in Maori TOVYPOENAMMOO and Eheinomauwe , the North Pole with unengraved brass hour dial ( some old minor blemishes, old scratches and minor repairs to the whole of the Antarctic area ); the celestial CARY'S NEW CELESTIAL GLOBE, ON WHICH are correctly 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 M. rGILPIN of the ROYAL SOCIETY. Made & Sold by J. & W. Cary. Strand London Jan 1 1816 , made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores laid to the ecliptic poles, the axis through the celestial poles, the equatorial graduated in hours and minutes in both directions and in degrees, the colures graduated in degreees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures and scientific instruments, the stars shown to seven orders of magnitude with nebulae and labelled with numbers, initials and Greek letters, with engraved brass hour dial ( some old minor blemishes and repaired cracks, the south polar area with scratches and repairs ), both spheres with stamped brass meridian circle, the mahogany horizon with hand-coloured engraved paper ring graduated in degrees of amplitude and azimuth, days of the houses of the Zodiac and of the days of the month, with compass directions ( some old minor scratches and abrasions ), on four mahogany quadrant supports to turned central pillar with three cabriole legs terminating in pad feet, the original uncoloured engraved compass mounted beneath on cross stretchers, with blued-iron needle marked N and S with brass cap, and glazed cover -- 24½in. (62.2cm.) high See Colour Illustration and Details (previous page) (2)

Auction archive: Lot number 42
Auction:
Datum:
29 Nov 2000
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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