20th Apr, 2011 12:00
Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art (Princess)
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[M] A FINE PAIR OF REGENCY 12IN. TABLE GLOBES BY...
A FINE PAIR OF REGENCY 12IN. TABLE GLOBES BY J. & W. CARY, 1816
the terrestrial with a cartouche signed as per title and dated 'Septr 2d, 1816', comprising twelve delicately hand-coloured gores with fully graduated equatorial, ecliptic and anti-meridian, the oceans with an analemma, numerous explorers' tracks, with notes and dates, and trade winds in the Indian Ocean, the continents showing towns, cities, rivers, and the Great Wall of China, Central Africa inscribed 'Unknown Parts' and 'Hottentots'; the celestial with cartouche signed as per title and dated 'Jan 1.1816', twelve hand-coloured engraved split half-gores laid to the ecliptic poles, the axis through the celestial poles, with fully graduated equinoctial, ecliptic with twilight zone and four colures, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures and scientific instruments, with dotted boundaries and stars to seven orders of magnitude with nebulae and variously labelled with Greek and Roman characters and Arabic numerals according to source; both globes mounted in brass horizon rings on original stands of issue with coloured meridian rings with red-painted edges -- 18in. (45.7cm.) high
(2)
Provenance: With Trevor Philip & Sons Ltd., London, 1989.
the terrestrial with a cartouche signed as per title and dated 'Septr 2d, 1816', comprising twelve delicately hand-coloured gores with fully graduated equatorial, ecliptic and anti-meridian, the oceans with an analemma, numerous explorers' tracks, with notes and dates, and trade winds in the Indian Ocean, the continents showing towns, cities, rivers, and the Great Wall of China, Central Africa inscribed 'Unknown Parts' and 'Hottentots'; the celestial with cartouche signed as per title and dated 'Jan 1.1816', twelve hand-coloured engraved split half-gores laid to the ecliptic poles, the axis through the celestial poles, with fully graduated equinoctial, ecliptic with twilight zone and four colures, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures and scientific instruments, with dotted boundaries and stars to seven orders of magnitude with nebulae and variously labelled with Greek and Roman characters and Arabic numerals according to source; both globes mounted in brass horizon rings on original stands of issue with coloured meridian rings with red-painted edges -- 18in. (45.7cm.) high
(2)
Provenance: With Trevor Philip & Sons Ltd., London, 1989.
Sold for £9,920
Estimated at £5,000 - £8,000
(inc. buyer's premium of 24%)
A FINE PAIR OF REGENCY 12IN. TABLE GLOBES BY J. & W. CARY, 1816
the terrestrial with a cartouche signed as per title and dated 'Septr 2d, 1816', comprising twelve delicately hand-coloured gores with fully graduated equatorial, ecliptic and anti-meridian, the oceans with an analemma, numerous explorers' tracks, with notes and dates, and trade winds in the Indian Ocean, the continents showing towns, cities, rivers, and the Great Wall of China, Central Africa inscribed 'Unknown Parts' and 'Hottentots'; the celestial with cartouche signed as per title and dated 'Jan 1.1816', twelve hand-coloured engraved split half-gores laid to the ecliptic poles, the axis through the celestial poles, with fully graduated equinoctial, ecliptic with twilight zone and four colures, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures and scientific instruments, with dotted boundaries and stars to seven orders of magnitude with nebulae and variously labelled with Greek and Roman characters and Arabic numerals according to source; both globes mounted in brass horizon rings on original stands of issue with coloured meridian rings with red-painted edges -- 18in. (45.7cm.) high
(2)
Provenance: With Trevor Philip & Sons Ltd., London, 1989.
the terrestrial with a cartouche signed as per title and dated 'Septr 2d, 1816', comprising twelve delicately hand-coloured gores with fully graduated equatorial, ecliptic and anti-meridian, the oceans with an analemma, numerous explorers' tracks, with notes and dates, and trade winds in the Indian Ocean, the continents showing towns, cities, rivers, and the Great Wall of China, Central Africa inscribed 'Unknown Parts' and 'Hottentots'; the celestial with cartouche signed as per title and dated 'Jan 1.1816', twelve hand-coloured engraved split half-gores laid to the ecliptic poles, the axis through the celestial poles, with fully graduated equinoctial, ecliptic with twilight zone and four colures, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures and scientific instruments, with dotted boundaries and stars to seven orders of magnitude with nebulae and variously labelled with Greek and Roman characters and Arabic numerals according to source; both globes mounted in brass horizon rings on original stands of issue with coloured meridian rings with red-painted edges -- 18in. (45.7cm.) high
(2)
Provenance: With Trevor Philip & Sons Ltd., London, 1989.
Auction: Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art (Princess), 20th Apr, 2011
