Pair of George III 3 inch pocket globes by J & W Cary, one dated 1791

The terrestrial globe is applied with 12 engraved and hand-coloured gores and signed in a circular cartouche ‘Cary’s Pocket Globe, Agreeable to the Latest Discoveries. Pubd. by J. & W. Cary, Strand, April 1791’. It is housed in a hinged shagreen case closed by a brass hook and lined with a hand-coloured engraved map of the ‘world as known in CÆSAR’s Time agreeable to D’Anville’ and ‘A Table of Latitudes & Longitudes of Places not given on this globe’. The celestial globe also has 12 hand-painted gores and is signed in a rectangular panel ‘New Celestial Globe by J. & W. Cary Strand’. Its hinged shagreen case (cracked) is fitted with two hooks and eyes and has a lacquered orange interior.

Estimate:£22,000

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