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A fine Nuremburg table globe
JOHANN GABRIEL DOPPELMAYR (1671-1750), 1728
A fine Nuremburg table globe Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (1671-1750), 1728 A 12½-inch diameter terrestrial globe made up of twelve finely engraved and hand coloured gores, pasted cartouche 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 Ioh. Georg. Puschnero Chalcographo Norib. A.C. 1728 ; the equatorial and meridian of Ferro graduated in individual degrees and labelled every 5, the Polar and Tropic circles graduated in degrees and named but unlabelled, the ecliptic graduated in individual days of the houses of the Zodiac with names and symbols and labelled every ten days, the oceans with a second cartouche in the southern Pacific surrounded by portraits of various explorers, also showing numerous voyages including including those of Loys (1708) partially coloured in orange, Dampier (1688 & 1700), Tasman (1624), Olivieri de Noord (1600), Magellan (1599), Roggeveen and Behrens (1722) and Le Maire; Antarctica with no land shown but a note on the Antarctic Circle at 55°W I. diton detecta per F. Drack , the continents with nation states finely shaded and hand-coloured in outline in orange and green or left uncoloured, and showing a wealth of detail including mountains and forests in pictorial relief, rivers, towns and cities, some depicted by small pictograms, China showing Great Wall, Australia labelled TERRA VIT, TERRA AUSTRALIS and NOVA HOLLANDIA , also showing some place names such as terra Concordi detecta 1616 , with a small stretch of western coastline missing and no southern or eastern coastline, the northern coastline misshapen, Tasmania shown as a strecth of southern coastline and labelled DIEMENS LAND , New Zealand shown as a stretch of western coastline and labelled NOVA ZEELANDIA , North America showing California as a penisnula, with no detail or coastline to the north, eastern Canada well-detailed with Labrador showing Eskimaux . With a stamped brass hour dial and pointer, the engraved brass meridian circle graduated in four quadrants, on a later mahogany Dutch-style stand with facsimile horison ring. A circular recess in the base housing a fine octagonal gilt and silver string-gnomon sun and moon dial, the gilt horizontal plate with foliate decoration at the corners and a folding string gnomon support, signed Johan Martin in Augspurg . 18in. (46cm.) high