A DUTCH 2½-INCH POCKET GLOBE

JOHANNES DEUR, CIRCA 1720

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A DUTCH 2½-INCH POCKET GLOBE
JOHANNES DEUR, CIRCA 1720
the globe made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, cartouche AMSTERDAM Excudit Iohannes Deur, graduated ecliptic and equator with degrees alternately highlighted in gilt, gilt tropics and polar circles, no Antarctic continent, California as an island, no coast to North-Western Canada, partial coastline depicted between Japan and America 'Terra Esonis', Australia partly delineated with some coastline to Van Diemens Land and New Zealand, rhumb lines to the oceans, contained in original fishskin case, inlaid with twelve celestial gores the stars picked out in gilt, given to six orders of magnitude, cartouche AMSTERDAM Excudit I.Deur
2½in. (6cm.) diameter

Literature

P. van der Krogt, Globi Neerlandici: The production of globes in the Low Countries, Utrecht, 1993, DEU I, p. 571

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Lot Essay

Johannes Deur (1667-1734) is recorded as an active globe maker in 1723, a year after receiving a charter for a mechanical globe. He is known as an active map engraver as early as 1714, and may be related to Abraham Deur who was an engraver for de Wit. The quality of his engraving is of the highest quality, and the stars picked are out in gilt to make this one of the most beautiful pocket globes we have seen. It is also incredibly rare, with only two copies held in institutions (Museum Boerhaave & Museum of the Jagellonian University), one sold in these rooms April 24th 2013, and another copy (possibly the current example) was sold by Frederick Muller, cat. 93, in 1891.

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