AN EARLY DUTCH TERRESTRIAL GLOBE

Lot 71
09.12.2020 00:00UTC +00:00
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£ 100 000
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ID 470071
Lot 71 | AN EARLY DUTCH TERRESTRIAL GLOBE
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£ 100 000 – 150 000
AN EARLY DUTCH TERRESTRIAL GLOBE

JODOCUS HONDIUS THE YOUNGER AND JOHANNES JANSSONIUS, 1648

Comrised of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes applied to a 17-inch sphere, the dedication cartouche Nobilissimis, Amplissmis, Contsultissimis Prudentissimique viris D. Dominis Societatis Indiarum Occidentalium Curatoribus suos hosce Coelestem Terrestremque Globos Johannes Janssonius Humillimus cliens L.M.Q. dat, dicat dedicatque. Anno 1648 and engravers cartouche Amstelodami Edebat Ioannes Ianssoni Sculpebat magnoq[ue S]tudio componebat Ab[raham]us Goos Am[selo]damensis. A further advice to the Reader cartouche in North America. Turning in original graduated brass meridian ring with original brass hour ring, sitting in original oak horizon ring with engraved paper calendrical scales. On later stand with cast iron central supported on painted wooden cross-stretchers with turned oak columns.

Van der Krogt Hon VI.3

27 x 24 x 24in. (69 x 61 x 61cm.)

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