Y A VERY FINE PAIR OF REGENCY TWENTY-ONE INCH TERRESTRIAL AND CELESTIAL FLOOR-STANDING LIBRARY GLOBESJ. & W. CARY, LONDON, THE CELESTIAL DATED 1799, THE TERRESTRIAL DATED 1815/1823The terrestrial applied with eighteen hand-coloured engraved split half-gores incorporating circular cartouche inscribed 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 to the present time. LONDON: and overlaid Made & Sold by J.& W. Cary, Strand, March 1st. 1815., with further inscription WITH ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO 1823 beneath, with fully graduated equatorial, ecliptic and four meridians, the Pacific ocean with an analemma, many explorers' tracks and numerous notes and dates, Antarctica with no land shown but Firm Fields and Vast Mountains of Ice 71.10 Highest South Lat of Capt. Cook and other notes, the continents with nation states faintly colour-outlined, showing cities depicted by a small building, towns, rivers, mountains in pictorial relief, marshland, caravan routes and African salt and copper mines, with numerous notes and Canada with no northern coastline; the celestial with conforming roundel inscribed CARY'S, New and Improved, CELESTIAL GLOBE, ON WHICH, Is carefully laid down the whole of the STARS and NEBULÆ, Contained in the ASTRONOMICAL CATALOGUE of the, REVD. Mr. WOLLASTON, F.R.S., Compiled from the Authorities of, FLAMSTEED, DE LA CAILLE, HEVELIUS, MAYER, BRADLEY, HERSCHEL, MASKELYNE &c. With an extensive number from the works of Miss Herschel, The whole adapted to the year 1800, and the, Limits of each Constellation determined, by a boundary line. London: Made & Sold by J.& W. Cary, No. 181 Strand Mar 1 1799, also made up of two sets of eighteen hand-coloured engraved split half-gores laid to the ecliptic poles, the axis through the celestial poles, with fully graduated equatorial, ecliptic with twilight zone and four colures, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts, figures and scientific instruments, with dotted boundaries, the stars shown to nine orders of magnitude with doubles, clusters and nebulæ and labelled with Greek and Roman characters and Arabic numerals denoting their source, with an explanation beneath the cartouche; each sphere pivoted via the polar axis within brass meridian circle divided for degrees and with brass hour circle to North pole, set within hand-coloured engraved paper horizon ring with compass points and degrees in both directions, Zodiac and calendar scales and wind directions, supported on a fine ebony line-strung satinwood stand with curved line-panelled frieze over three square section tapered legs united by three upward curved stretchers terminating with a baluster-turned upright supporting the globe via a brass clamp engaging with the meridian ring, the lower section with further turned stretchers supporting a glazed paper scale compass printed with elaborate thirty-two point rose within outer scale divided for degrees, over brass cup castors.Each 119cm (47ins) high, 69cm (27ins) diameter overall. Provenance:Purchased from Sally Turner Antiques, Hogarth House, High Street, Wendover, Bucks, 20th July 2002 for £95,000; thence by family descent. The celebrated Cary family business of scientific instrument and globe makers was established by John Cary at Johnson's Court, Fleet Street, London in 1782 moving to a new address at 'Corner of Arundel Square', Strand the following year. He was primarily an engraver of maps, charts and globes who moved again in 1783 to 188 Strand. By 1791 he had entered into what appeared to be a relatively casual partnership with his brother, William; this partnership lasted until circa 1816 by which time William and John Cary had moved again to 181 Strand before finally settling in 86 St. James in 1820. The following year he was succeeded by his sons, John (II) and George Cary, who continued from the firm's 181 Strand address until 1851/2 when the business was acquired by Henry Gould. Cary's 21-inch globes were the largest and most impressive produced during the George III and Regency period.Condition Report: Both globes are in very fine near retail clean condition. The celestial has some very slight filling and touching-in to address some cracking to the equinoctial affecting around a third of the circumference at that point. Otherwise faults are very much limited to a few very small historic scuff repairs and some very localised staining to the joints between some of the gores. The Terrestrial has a small (15 by 5mm) clean puncture just below Australia and a few very light surface scratching to the Southern regions. There is also a small filled scuff and staining adjacent to the bottom pivot. Sphere otherwise is in very fine condition with only or two small filled blemishes and light overall mottling. The brass fittings appear all-original and are in good condition with slightly mellowed lacquer finish. Both stands are in fine condition. The Horizon papers are in clean condition exhibiting only very minor browning. There are some light shrinkage cracking (from movement within the ring beneath) showing through the papers but no apparent losses or infilling. Both compasses are complete; the paper to the terrestrial has tears and rubbing but no losses, the celestial has losses and touching in to the paper, both have noticeable browning hence are now light beige in colour. The frames are in very good clean condition - the celestial has visible plugged fixings to the outer surfaces of the legs corresponding to the cabriole inner supports and compass stretcher; the terrestrial has similar visible plugs but for only for the compass stretcher. Faults are otherwise limited to light shrinkage and minor restorations to the ebony stringing. Condition Report Disclaimer
