A pair of George III 21 inch globes by J&W Cary, dated 1815 and 1800

A pair of George III 21 inch globes by J&W Cary, dated 1815 and 1800, set in mahogany stands with turned urn-shaped supports raised on three outsplayed legs with original castors feet, joined by stretchers centred on the original compass roses, decoratedwith ebony lozenges and stringing. The maker’s label on the terrestrial globe states ‘Cary’s New Terrestrial Globe exhibiting Exhibiting the tracks of Captain Cook and those of Captain Vancouver, etc…London: made and sold by J & W Cary, Strand, March, 1815’ while the celestial is inscribed ‘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 Revd Mr Wollaston, etc. The whole adapted to the year 1800.’

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