A DUTCH CELESTIAL GLOBE

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£ 70 000
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09.12.2020 00:00UTC +01:00
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ID 470072
Lot 72 | A DUTCH CELESTIAL GLOBE
A DUTCH CELESTIAL GLOBE

WILLEM BLAEU, AFTER 1621

Twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, with starts painted in gilt, applied to a 9-inch sphere, the ecliptic and equator graduated, tropics and polar circles marked and labelled, the constellations labelled and main stars named, two novae for 1572 and 1600 marked with text, dedicatory cartouche and advice to the reader signed Willem Jansz. Blaeu, both in Northern Hemisphere, cartouche for stars to six orders of magnitude in southern hemisphere. Supported in graduated brass meridian with 1 punched on reverse sitting in original oak stand, the horizon ring carrying hand-coloured engraved paper calendrical scales.

Van der Krogt BLA celestial III. state 2.

16 x 13 x 13in. (41 x 33 x 33cm.)

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