PAIR OF PARQUET GLOBES, MID-19th CENTURY - The globe signed 'Cary's new Terrestrial Globe delineated from the best authorities extant. Exhibiting the latest discoveries towards the North Pole and every improvement in Geography to the present time. Made & sold by G & J Cary, 86 St James Street Jan 4th 1831'; - The Celestial Globe signed 'Crutchley's late Cary's New Celestial Globe on which are correctly laid down upwards of 8500 stars with the extent of each Constellation precisely defined. G. F. Crutchley Map Seller and Globe Maker, 81, Fleet Street London'; Both spheres covered with twelve spindles without polar caps printed on coloured paper; brass meridian rings graduated in four quadrants divided to 1°; turned mahogany mounts with three legs joined by a turned spacer bearing compasses printed on paper with 32 directions; needles missing, horizons palis and damaged. D. 30 cm (11 ¾ in.) H. (mounts) : 68,5 cm (27 in.) Provenance : Sale in Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Me Tajan, 2 March 2001, lot 225. A pair of English floor globes, the terrestrial globe by John and George Cary, the celestial globe by George Frederick Crutchley, mid-19th century Successors to their father, John Cary (1755-1835), the brothers George (c.1788-1859) and John II (1791-1852), continued to make maps and globes until the mid-19th century when, between 1846 and 1850, these engraved plates were acquired by G. F. Crutchley. George Frederick Crutchley (1796/7-1880) appears to have trained in the workshop of the famous cartographer Aaron Arrowsmith. He set up his own firm in 1823, specialising in publishing maps of London. From the 1830s onwards, he expanded his publishing business and, between 1846 and 1850, acquired the map plates from Cary. Like the atlases he began publishing in the 1840s, Crutchley's globes are relatively rare and reflect his desire to expand his firm's output into a growing market based on the globes of J. & W. Cary globes. Crutchley used these globes until the 1870s.