A Late George III Mahogany Library Terrestrial Globe by J. & W. Cary, circa 1805, Up-Dated by G. F. Cruchley, 1859

the tripod base with incurved supports, the stretchers centered by a glazed compass with a printed scale inscribed J. & W. CARY. STRAND. LONDON, the terrestrial globe with the inscription CRUCHLEY'S / ...TE.../ TERRESTRIAL GLOBE / From the most ... Authorities / EXHIBITING THE LATEST DISCOVERIES TOWARDS THE / NORTH POLE / And the new Settlements & Divisions of / AUSTRAILIA, NEW ZEALAND, / CALIFORNIA, / TEXAS & c. / LONDON / G.F. CRUCHLEY, MAP-SELLER, GLOBE MAKER & PUBLISHER, / 81. FLEET STREET / Additions to 1859, the brass meridian ring engraved The Gift of Edmond Sexton [sic], Viscount Pery, to his Daughter, The Hon.ble Frances Calvert, 1806.

Edmond Sexten Pery (1719-1806), Viscount Pery of Newtown-Pery (1785), by whom presented to his daughter, Frances, who married, 1789, Nicolson Calvert, Hunsdon House, Hertfordshire

The globe and horizon ring with extremely discolored varnish, the globe with one area of damage approximately 2 inches in diameter, with slight losses to the edges and sitting slightly proud to the overall surface, retaining the original brass fittings, the stand with old polished surface overall with some flaking to the polish on the stretcher supporting the central compass which retains its needle and paper dial, one leg with re-glued break and factures at junction with caster and with age crack at junction with the arched stretcher, small scratches, scuffs and rubbing to extremities overall.
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The engraved inscription on the meridian ring of this unusual globe indicates that it was presented by the noted Irish lawyer and politician Edmond Sexton Pery, Viscount Pery. Born in 1719, the son of the Rev. Stackpole Pery of Stackpole Court, Co. Clare, he was educated as a lawyer becoming a member of the Irish House of Commons in 1751, and was elected speaker of the House in 1771. He was re-elected to the speakership in 1783, retiring in 1785, being raised to the peerage as Viscount Pery of Newtown-Pery in the county of Limerick, being granted a pension of £3,000. His Limerick residence was in Henry Street, and he died at his London House in Park Street in 1806. His second daughter, Frances married in 1789 Nicholas Calvert, Esq., of Hunsdon House, Hertfordshire. Hunsdon House was originally built in 1447, being acquired by Edward IV in 1471, and subsequently being considerably extended by Henry VIII. The remains of Henry VIII house were incorporated into as new house in the early 19^th century by the Calvert family who sold the estate in the late 1850s.

Founded by John Cary (c. 1745-1835), with his brother William, the firm of Cary was one of the foremost London map and globe sellers of the late 18^th and early 19^th centuries, being succeeded by George and John Cary in the Regency period. In the mid 19^th century their plates were acquired by G. F. Crutchley, a map seller who continued to produce globes under the Cary name.