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GLOBES OF BLAEU
The Most Magnificent and Largest Globes of Blaeu, the World's Greatest Globe Maker. Compiled by Peter van der Krogt. 't Goy-Houten, HES & DE GRAAF Publishers, 2001. 29,5x21 cm. Richly illustrated. 19 pp
Matching pair of terrestrial and celestial globes, with a diameter of 26 inches (68 cm), with text in Latin. The terrestial globe is composed of 36 half gores and two polar calottes; the celestial globe of 24 ecliptical gores. The gores are pasted on a plaster sphere rotating on brass pinions within a brass meridian ring incised with a graduated scale. Each globe is set into a matching seventeenth-century Dutch wooden base with a small wooden compass-box mounted on the base-plate and with the horizon ring covered scales, almanac and calendar, etc..., engraved on paper and handcoloured as originally issued. Salescatalogue.
Related Subjects: Antiques - History of Cartography
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KROGT, P. van der
The Globes of Hondius. A most important pair of globes showing the results of the earliest Dutch exploration voyages to the East Indies. Utrecht, HES Publishers, 1991. 8vo. Wrappers. With 15 colour illustrations. 32 pp
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KROGT, P. van der
Globi Neerlandici. The production of globes in the Low Countries. Utrecht, HES Publishers, 1993. Cloth. With 572 illustrations. 663 pp
With bibliography of globes made in the Low Countries, ca. 1525-1800.
9789061941385
Related Subjects: Antiques - Bibliography, Subjects - History of Cartography
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