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HONDIUS, Jodocus (1595-1629) and JANSSONIUS, Johannes(1588-1664)
AN EARLY DUTCH TERRESTRIAL GLOBE, 1648
A rare early terrestrial globe, only four others in this state recorded, made by one of the great publishing houses of the Dutch Golden Age of Cartography. Jodocus Hondius the elder (1563-1612) first issued a pair of globes in 1597, and throughout the 17th century the globes produced by his family enjoyed great fame: it is a Hondius terrestrial globe that appears in Vermeer's The Geographer. This globe was issued by Hondius's son-in-law Johannes Janssonius (1588-1664), who is often accused of plagiarising some of his cartography from the great rival to Hondius, Willem Blaeu.
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.)