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An English 3-inch terrestrial pocket globe, by Cary London, dated 1791
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Sold
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Description
- globe
- diameter 3 in. ; diameter of case 3 1/4 in.
- 7.6 cm; 8.3 cm
the cartouche printed with CARY / Pocket / GLOBE; / aggreeable / to the latest / DISCOVERIES / LONDON / pubd. by J&W Cary Strand Apr 1 1791; with its original fish-skin case lined with paper gores giving a list of latitudes of places not shown on the globe and a map of Caesar's time; the interior of the case printed with a cartouche A TABLE / OF / Latitudes & Longitudes / of Places not given / on this / GLOBE; the other half inscribed The WORLD as known in CAESAR'S Time / aggreeable to D'Auville; with modern plastic stand.
Provenance
Trevor Philip & Son Ltd., London