A GEORGE III CELESTIAL POCKET GLOBE

A GEORGE III CELESTIAL POCKET GLOBE

BY JOHN AND WILLIAM CARY, LATE 18TH / EARLY 19TH CENTURY

the 3in globe displaying 24 stars and Ptolemaic constellations, with a cartouche inscribed 'New Celestial Globe' and 'Pub'd by J & W Cary, Strand', with two metal pivots at the poles, in a shagreen case, the interior with a 'Table of Latitudes & Longitudes of Places not given on this Globe' and a map of 'The World as known in Caesar's Time agreeable to D'Auville'

9.2cm diameter

Catalogue Note

The Cary family firm was established in the late 18th century by John Cary (1755-1835) a noted map seller and his brother William (1758-1825) an optician and nautical instrument maker. The firm published their first globes in 1791 advertising in the 'Traveller's Companion' where it stated they made terrestrial and celestial globes in 3, 9, 12 and 21in diameter sizes 'from entire new plates'.