The Terraqueous Globe, exhibiting the present state of the known World, published under the immediate patronage of and dedicated by permission to His Most Gracious Majesty George IV, by John Addison, London. Manufactured and sold by G. and J. Cary, 86 St. James's Street, London.
A 36-inch terrestrial library globe, the hollow plaster-coated sphere covered in twenty-four hand-colored engraved gores, within a graduated brass meridian ring with hour dial, the engraved horizon paper laid with the thirty-two points of the compass, raised on a San Domingo mahogany stand with curved scroll supports and a concave-sided trefoil platform. Height 54 inches, horizon ring diameter 42 inches.
The globe is sold with the original bill of sale and receipt from the makers, itemizing the globe at £39 15s and a buff leather cover at £3 10s, the receipt signed for the firm on July 21st 1840 beneath an embossed duty stamp, acknowledging forty-one pounds two shillings received from the Reverend Thomas Davies. Davies, Senior Bursar of Jesus College, Oxford and the college's celebrated judge of wine, bought the globe for his college, where it remained for the next 169 years. Few globes of any period survive with their original documentation, and fewer still with the day, the purchaser, and the sum recorded in the maker's own hand. Sotheby's research in 2009 recorded no other example of this globe made by Cary.
The voyages of the great navigators are engraved across the oceans. The tracks of Cook, Gore, La Perouse, Vancouver, and Weddell can each be followed around the sphere, and three of them converge on Hawaii, then the Sandwich Islands, where a legend at Karakakooa Bay records that Captain Cook was killed by the natives on 14 February 1779. In the far south, a legend marks where Weddell reached his farthest point in 1823, with open water engraved beyond it, the Antarctic continent still unfound.
America appears in the moment before it became itself. Florida is still divided as East Florida, Cohahuila runs across ground that would be an independent Texas within a decade, and an American state within two, and on the Pacific coast the Columbia is marked Clatsop or Fort George, with no boundary drawn across the West at all.
The Terraqueous Globe, exhibiting the present state of the known World, published under the immediate patronage of and dedicated by permission to His Most Gracious Majesty George IV, by John Addison, London. Manufactured and sold by G. and J. Cary, 86 St. James's Street, London.
A 36-inch terrestrial library globe, the hollow plaster-coated sphere covered in twenty-four hand-colored engraved gores, within a graduated brass meridian ring with hour dial, the engraved horizon paper laid with the thirty-two points of the compass, raised on a San Domingo mahogany stand with curved scroll supports and a concave-sided trefoil platform. Height 54 inches, horizon ring diameter 42 inches.
The globe is sold with the original bill of sale and receipt from the makers, itemizing the globe at £39 15s and a buff leather cover at £3 10s, the receipt signed for the firm on July 21st 1840 beneath an embossed duty stamp, acknowledging forty-one pounds two shillings received from the Reverend Thomas Davies. Davies, Senior Bursar of Jesus College, Oxford and the college's celebrated judge of wine, bought the globe for his college, where it remained for the next 169 years. Few globes of any period survive with their original documentation, and fewer still with the day, the purchaser, and the sum recorded in the maker's own hand. Sotheby's research in 2009 recorded no other example of this globe made by Cary.
The voyages of the great navigators are engraved across the oceans. The tracks of Cook, Gore, La Perouse, Vancouver, and Weddell can each be followed around the sphere, and three of them converge on Hawaii, then the Sandwich Islands, where a legend at Karakakooa Bay records that Captain Cook was killed by the natives on 14 February 1779. In the far south, a legend marks where Weddell reached his farthest point in 1823, with open water engraved beyond it, the Antarctic continent still unfound.
America appears in the moment before it became itself. Florida is still divided as East Florida, Cohahuila runs across ground that would be an independent Texas within a decade, and an American state within two, and on the Pacific coast the Columbia is marked Clatsop or Fort George, with no boundary drawn across the West at all.
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