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Cary's new terrestrial globe drawn from the most recent geographical works ..., Jan 7th 1832

Cary's new terrestrial globe drawn from the most recent geographical works ..., Jan 7th 1832

Cary's new terrestrial globe drawn from the most recent geographical works shewing the whole of the new discoveries with the tracks of the principal navigators and every improvement in geography to the present time, Jan 7th 1832

GLOBE 7
Hand-coloured globe with brass meridian circles and hour rings mounted on a mahogany stand
Purchased from Hordern House in 2013

This terrestrial table globe shows the navigational tracks of all three voyages of James Cook and his place of death in the Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands). It also shows tracks of other Pacific explorers including Matthew Flinders, Tobias Furneaux, Jean Francois La Perouse, and George Vancouver.

The terrestrial globe is one of a matched pair of 15-inch table globes, mounted on mahogany stands.


… There is scarcely a writer on the different branches of education who has not expressly recommended the study of globes ...

Thomas Keith, ‘A new treatise on the use of the globes; or, a philosophical view of the earth and heavens …’, London, 1848


The principal globe-makers in London, are Cary, Bardin, Newton, and Addison.

Thomas Keith, ‘A new treatise on the use of the globes; or, a philosophical view of the earth and heavens …’, London, 1848


Cary’s globes are 21, 18, 15, 12, 9, and 6 inches in diameter, and the celestial globe may be purchased either with or without the hieroglyphical figures depicted on the surface.

Thomas Keith, ‘A new treatise on the use of the globes; or, a philosophical view of the earth and heavens …’, London, 1848