John Cary, William Cary

A pocket globe by brothers John and William Cary, who had separate businesses as a map publisher and a scientific instrument maker respectively, but worked together to produce globes.

• John & William Cary (English).
• "Cary's Pocket Globe agreeable to the latest Discoveries."
• London: Strand: 1st of April, 1791.
• 12 engraved gores with original hand color, varnished over papier maché sphere, metal pivots.
• With original shagreen case with two brass clasps and hinge, lined with Cary's 'New Celestial Globe.'

This globe was their first, and does indeed show the latest discoveries, for example those of Alexander Mackenzie in Canada, 1789.

The routes of Cook's three voyages are also marked.

This globe was sold in different combinations: as part of an orrery and tellurian; as a pair with a celestial globe, with a map of the world in the t.mes of Caesar as the case lining; and, as here, with the gores used for the matching celestial globe as the lining.