CARY, John and William.
Cary's Pocket globe agreeable to the latest discoveries; New Celestial Globe. London: J. and W. Cary, April 1791.
CARY, John and William.
Cary's Pocket globe agreeable to the latest discoveries; New Celestial Globe. London: J. and W. Cary, April 1791. A pair of pocket globes, both diameter 3 inches (77 mm), each with 12 hand-colored engraved gores over a plaster base. The terrestrial with the title in a plain cartouche set in the southern Indian Ocean, the globe showing the track of Cook's second and third voyages, original light varnish, metal pinions, the lower hemisphere with a few repaired cracks and minor abrasions to varnish. The celestial very lightly browned. Both contained in an original imitation shagreen case, metal clasp, the interior of the case lined with hand-colored engraved gores, one side depicting "The WORLD as known in CAESAR'S Time agreeable to D'Anville" and the other hemisphere lined with "A table of latitudes and longitudes of places not given on this globe."
An attractive double-pair of pocket globes. John Cary was an engraver and map seller, who started his globe business in 1791 when together with his brother William, an instrument maker, they began to produce a variety of sizes of globes from 3 inch to 21 inches for the English market. William had been an apprentice to Jesse Ramsden. Cf van der krogt Car 1; Dekker Globes at Greenwich GLB0001.