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DOPPELMAYR, Johann Gabriel, Nuremburg, 1728 An extremely rare pair of 12½-inch (31.8cm.) diameter table globes, the terrestrial made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores with pasted-on cartouche in the the northern Pacific with decorative coloured border GLOBUS TERRESTRIS in quo locorum insigniorum situs terraeque facies, secundum praecipuas celeberrimorum nostri aevi Astronomorum et Geographorum observationes opera IOH. GABR. DOPPELMAIERI Mathem. Prof. Publ. Norib. exhibentur, concinnatus á Ioh. Georg. Puschnero Chalcographo Norib. A.C. 1728 , a second cartouche in the southern Pacific surrounded by portraits of various explorers, and beginning with Mart: Bohemus Norib. Eques (pasted on), and then Americus Vesputi, Franc. Draco, v Schouten, Georg Spilbergius, R.P. Tachard S. Ies., Wilh. Dampier (pasted on), Mon: de la Salle, Tomas Candisch, Olivirius a Nord, Ferdin. Magellanicus and Christ. Columbus , the text in the centre on an applied oval of coloured paper Exprimit Globus hic noster quicquid Geographia recens ex Observationibus fide dignis suppedicat, tam in situ locorum plurium, quam in terrarum, novarum etiam, mariumque ambitu. Meridianus primus per Insulam Fer inter Canarias (quae olim Fortunatae dicebantur) occidentalissimam ductus, á quo Parisensis Meridianus probatissimarum Observationum testimonio, 20 Gradibus, Noribergensis vero 28 Gr: 40 Min: distat , the equatorial and meridian of Ferro graduated in degrees, the Polar and Tropic circles graduated in degrees but unlanbelled, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with names and sigils, the oceans with the tracks of numerous explorers including those of Loys (1708), Dampier (1688 & 1700), Tasman (1624), Olivieri de Noord (1600), Magellan (1599), Roggeveen and Behrens (1722) and Le Maire, with further notes such as Maelstrom (off the Canary Isles), Terra Borealis incognita Detecta Dom: Ioh. De Gama (Alaska) and numerous other notes relating to date of discovery, and showing details such as the Fretum Anian [Strait of Anian] and the island of Nova Brittania off Papua New Guinea, the continents with nation states variously and delicately coloured and showing a wealth of detail inscluding rivers, mountains, towns, cities and the Chinese Wall, the mountain ranges shown in pictorial relief, the settlements depicted as buildings and towers, California shown as a peninsula, Canada with no northern coastline and no detail in the Western part, a simple section of partial coastline shown for Alaska, Japan shown mis-shapen, Australia shown attached to New Guinea and lacking the eastern and southern coastline, Tasmania shown as a stretch of southern coastline, New Zealand shown as a stretch of western coastline, the Antarctic with no land shown beyond an island detected by Francis Drake ( general discolouration and abrasion, some minor paper loss, and more extensive paper loss at South Pole ); the celestial made up of two sets of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores laid to the celestial poles, with pasted-on cartouche GLOBUS COELESTIS NOVUS Stellarum fixarum Loca secundam celeberrimi Astronomi Dantiscani IOHANNIS HEVELII Catalogum ad añum Chr. 1730. compl. sistens, opera IOH. GABR. DOPPELMAIERI, M.P.P. exhibitus à Iohanne Georgio Puschnero Chalcogrpaho Noribergensi A.C. 1728 , the equatorial graduated in degrees, the equinoctial colure ungraduated, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with names and sigils, the stars shown to six orders of magnitude with nebulae, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures and some scientific instruments, elegantly engraved and delicately hand-coloured and labelled in Latin, further with numerous comets' paths shown, some with notes such as Via cometa ani 1683 ex Observ. Hevelii ( general discolouration, non-separated crack approx. 4in. long near equator, axis hole at ecliptic North Pole, rubbing with paper loss at South Pole ); both spheres held in the engraved brass meridian circl