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Lot Essay
An almost identical pair of globes was sold, Christie's Amsterdam, sale 2734, European Noble and Private Collections, 3-5 April 2007, lot 27;
A similar celestial globe was sold: Christie's London King Street, sale 6668, Fine Globes and Planetaria, 5 November 2002, lot 2;
And a late 17th Century re-issued celestial globe was sold Christie's Amsterdam, sale 2825 The Decorative Arts Sale, 30 June 2009, lot 127
Isaac Habrecht II (1589-1633) was born in Strasbourg the son of the famous maker of that city's astronomical clock. After reading medicine and mathematics and practicing as court physician to the counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg, he turned to cartography. In 1621 he published a pair of globes of 8 in. diameter (albeit the terrestrial is undated). Both were engraved by Jakob van Heyden (1573-1645). The cartography of the celestial globe was based on that of Petrus Plancius and Pieter van den Keere. Plancius and van den Keere are credited with the discovery and introduction of the new constellations of Camelopardalis, Gallus, Iordanus, Monoceros, Tigros and Apes, all reproduced here, but it is on Habrecht's celestial globe that the constellation Rhombus is first recorded as appearing and it is Habrecht who is generally credited with its discovery. Habrecht also published various planispheres and pamphlets on astronomical phenomena, including the treatise Tractatum de planiglobio coelesti et terrestri in 1628, which was translated into German in 1666. He died of the plague in 1633, shortly after having been appointed Professor of Mathematics at the University of Strasbourg.
Habrecht's globe gores and planispheres were republished in the 1660s by Paulus Fürst of Nuremberg, and then again around 1690 by Johann Christoph Weigel (1654-1726), another Nuremberg publisher, who by this time owned the copper plates, slightly updated them, and added his own name to the smaller cartouches. It is worth noting that it is these later editions that are described and illustrated in both van der Krogt (Hab2) and Dekker (GLBO118) and in the catalogue of the Schmidt collection, and that the 1621 edition appears to be considerably more scarce than the re-issued Weigel version.
A related celestial table globe is in the collection of the National Maritime Museum, London, inventory number GLB0118; see https://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/explore/object.cfm?ID=GLB0118
A similar celestial globe was sold: Christie's London King Street, sale 6668, Fine Globes and Planetaria, 5 November 2002, lot 2;
And a late 17th Century re-issued celestial globe was sold Christie's Amsterdam, sale 2825 The Decorative Arts Sale, 30 June 2009, lot 127
Isaac Habrecht II (1589-1633) was born in Strasbourg the son of the famous maker of that city's astronomical clock. After reading medicine and mathematics and practicing as court physician to the counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg, he turned to cartography. In 1621 he published a pair of globes of 8 in. diameter (albeit the terrestrial is undated). Both were engraved by Jakob van Heyden (1573-1645). The cartography of the celestial globe was based on that of Petrus Plancius and Pieter van den Keere. Plancius and van den Keere are credited with the discovery and introduction of the new constellations of Camelopardalis, Gallus, Iordanus, Monoceros, Tigros and Apes, all reproduced here, but it is on Habrecht's celestial globe that the constellation Rhombus is first recorded as appearing and it is Habrecht who is generally credited with its discovery. Habrecht also published various planispheres and pamphlets on astronomical phenomena, including the treatise Tractatum de planiglobio coelesti et terrestri in 1628, which was translated into German in 1666. He died of the plague in 1633, shortly after having been appointed Professor of Mathematics at the University of Strasbourg.
Habrecht's globe gores and planispheres were republished in the 1660s by Paulus Fürst of Nuremberg, and then again around 1690 by Johann Christoph Weigel (1654-1726), another Nuremberg publisher, who by this time owned the copper plates, slightly updated them, and added his own name to the smaller cartouches. It is worth noting that it is these later editions that are described and illustrated in both van der Krogt (Hab2) and Dekker (GLBO118) and in the catalogue of the Schmidt collection, and that the 1621 edition appears to be considerably more scarce than the re-issued Weigel version.
A related celestial table globe is in the collection of the National Maritime Museum, London, inventory number GLB0118; see https://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/explore/object.cfm?ID=GLB0118