A PAIR OF 13½-INCH, 17TH-CENTURY DUTCH TABLE GLOBES. AMSTERDAM: JAN JANSZ. VAN CEULEN 1682 (TERRESTRIAL) AND AMSTERDAM: JOAN BLAEU ‘1603’ [BUT AFTER CIRCA 1621] (CELESTIAL) The terrestrial composed of 12 hand-coloured engraved paper gores laid down to polar calottes, signed in one engraved cartouche ‘Ioannes van Ceulen […] 1682’, the equatorial and ecliptic graduated in degrees, the Ferro meridian graduated in degrees, tropics and polar circles marked, the globe showing a partial Australian coastline, Tierra del Fuego as an island, and other recently-charted geographical discoveries, the seas and oceans with rhumb lines for 32 compass points. The celestial composed of 12 hand-coloured engraved paper gores laid down to calottes at the ecliptic poles, signed in one engraved cartouche by Willem Blaeu, the equatorial and ecliptic, and the solstitial and equinoctial colures graduated in degrees, the 48 Ptolemaic and 4 non-Ptolemaic constellations, and the southern constellations of Plancius depicted figuratively by mythical beasts, scientific instruments, etc. in the style of Saenredam (vide infra), and identified by their Latin names, incorporating data from Plancius and Houtman, the stars in gilt and shown to six orders of magnitude with the nebulae, the tropics and polar circles marked, the globe mounted at the celestial poles, cartouches with a portrait of Tycho Brahe, a table of magnitude, and a table of precession. both globes mounted in brass meridian rings graduated in degrees, without hour-rings or pointers, upon Dutch wooden stands, the horizon rings supported by four turned ebonised columns and central ebonised pillar supports, united by two stretchers with a turned circular base-plate, hand-coloured facsimile paper horizon rings showing days and months, feast and saints days, and houses of the zodiac and associated characteristics, both globes with significant restoration of cracks and surfaces losses, some missing areas restored by hand in ink and watercolour, one with applied paper slip bearing text each 52cm high, 34cm diameter; 1ft. 8½in., 1ft. 1¼in.
A PAIR OF 13½-INCH, 17TH-CENTURY DUTCH TABLE GLOBES. AMSTERDAM: JAN JANSZ. VAN CEULEN 1682 (TERRESTRIAL) AND AMSTERDAM: JOAN BLAEU ‘1603’ [BUT AFTER CIRCA 1621] (CELESTIAL) The terrestrial composed of 12 hand-coloured engraved paper gores laid down to polar calottes, signed in one engraved cartouche ‘Ioannes van Ceulen […] 1682’, the equatorial and ecliptic graduated in degrees, the Ferro meridian graduated in degrees, tropics and polar circles marked, the globe showing a partial Australian coastline, Tierra del Fuego as an island, and other recently-charted geographical discoveries, the seas and oceans with rhumb lines for 32 compass points. The celestial composed of 12 hand-coloured engraved paper gores laid down to calottes at the ecliptic poles, signed in one engraved cartouche by Willem Blaeu, the equatorial and ecliptic, and the solstitial and equinoctial colures graduated in degrees, the 48 Ptolemaic and 4 non-Ptolemaic constellations, and the southern constellations of Plancius depicted figuratively by mythical beasts, scientific instruments, etc. in the style of Saenredam (vide infra), and identified by their Latin names, incorporating data from Plancius and Houtman, the stars in gilt and shown to six orders of magnitude with the nebulae, the tropics and polar circles marked, the globe mounted at the celestial poles, cartouches with a portrait of Tycho Brahe, a table of magnitude, and a table of precession. both globes mounted in brass meridian rings graduated in degrees, without hour-rings or pointers, upon Dutch wooden stands, the horizon rings supported by four turned ebonised columns and central ebonised pillar supports, united by two stretchers with a turned circular base-plate, hand-coloured facsimile paper horizon rings showing days and months, feast and saints days, and houses of the zodiac and associated characteristics, both globes with significant restoration of cracks and surfaces losses, some missing areas restored by hand in ink and watercolour, one with applied paper slip bearing text each 52cm high, 34cm diameter; 1ft. 8½in., 1ft. 1¼in.
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