€12.500,00 Categories: Cartography/Globes, Handcoloured, Highlights, History 19th cent. - s.l., s.n. Nr. 12578
The 4.25 inch. (10 cm.) spheres applied with twelve printed gores and polar calottes pivoted via the poles within brass half-meridian rings, each mounted on top of alabaster columns with molded capitals, notable entasis to the shafts and Tuscan-style bases, the plinths with gilt fluted black marble cavetto top moldings and roundel-centered skirts incorporating shaped [...]
A rare pair of miniature terrestrial and celestial globes, each with 12 hand-coloured engraved paper gores, over a papier mâché and plaster sphere. Diameter globes: 7 cm. Total high: 14,5 cm. The globes have been cleaned and re-varnished, and the stands are later.
€45.000,00 Categories: Cartography/Globes, Handcoloured, Highlights, History 1730 - Nürnberg, J.G. Doppelmayr Nr. 12307
Globus terrestris novus Loca Terrae insigniora sec. praestant Astron. et Geogr. observationes sistens opera Ioh. Gabr. Doppelmaieri M.P.P. concinne traditus à Ioh. Georg Puschnero chalcographo Norib. A.C. 1730. Globus coelestis novus Loca stellarum fixarum sec. cel. Ioh. Hevelium ad annum 1730 exhibens opera I.G. DOPPELMAIERI M.P.P. exacte concinnatus a Ioh. Geor. Puschnero Chalcographo Norib. A.C. [...]
€28.000,00 Categories: Cartography/Globes, Handcoloured, Highlights 1816/1820 - London, J. and W. Cary Nr. 12249
Each globe is 18″ in diameter. Each is presented atop a walnut tripod stand with brass casters, each measuring 45″ x 24″ in total. By John and William Cary (1754-1835 and 1759-1825) of London. Engraved and hand-colored. The Cary brothers were renowned creators of precision instruments, and their globes were widely regarded as the very [...]