A pair of 12-inch floor globes by Cary

A pair of 12-inch floor globes by Cary, each set into a tripod walnut stand with a turned baluster support, outswept legs on acorn feet and stretchers centred on a replaced compass rose, the terrestrial globe stating ‘Cary’s New Terrestrial Globe delineated from the best Authorities extant; Exhibiting the different tracks of Captain Cook and the New Discroveries made by him and other Circumnavigators. London: made and sold by J & W Cary, Strand, Jan.y 1st 1800’ and the celestial ‘Cary’s New Celestial Globe, on which are correctly laid down upwards of 35,000 stars selected from the most accurate observations and calculated for the Year 1800, with the extent of each constellation precisely defined by Mr. Gilpin of the Royal Society’. English, circa 1800.

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