SCHÖNNINGER, Franz Xavier, Vienna, 1864

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SCHÖNNINGER, Franz Xavier, Vienna, 1864
ERDGLOBUS nach den besten Ortsbestimmimgen und Karten entworfen von RIEDL v. LEUENSTERN neu bëarbeitet mit besonderer Rcksicht auf PHYSICALISCHE GEOGRAPHIE van F. SCHÖNNINGER junior 1864 WIEN Verlag bei Josef Schönninger V. Margarethen Griesgasses No39. gest v. C. Stein u.v. B. Biller
A 9¼-inch (23.5cm.) diameter terrestrial table globe made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, the equatorial graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days but unlabelled, the oceans with numerous notes and information including ocean currents with seasonal variations, shipping routes of various sorts, trade winds and explorers' tracks, and temperature variations, the continents with nation states shaded or coloured in outline in green, red, orange, yellow and blue and showing towns, cities, rivers, mountains and numerous details (some rubbing with loss of detail) with stamped brass meridian circle and (reproduction) hand-coloured paper horizon ring graduated in degrees with wind directions, days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac, on an ornate ebonised wooden tripod stand with the feet in the form of grotesque masks with open mouths, united by a concave triform base -- 15in. (38cm.) high

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Literature

DEKKER, Elly, and van der KROGT, Peter, Globes from the Western World (London, 1993)

Lot Essay

Franz Xavier (1820-1897) and Josef Schönninger (1819-1882) were the sons and successors of Franz Leopold Schöninger (1790-1877), the Viennese bookbinder and later publisher who from around 1840 controlled most of the Viennese globe market. The elder Schöninger (who, unlike his sons, spelt his name with only one 'n') was initially commisioned in 1815 by the geographer Josef Riedl von Leuenstern to produce a 9in. dia. globe, which he did. At this time Schöninger was working for Josph Jttner, but struck out on his own from about 1840 onwards, to be succeeded by his sons. By 1870 the firm produced around 15,000 globes a year. It was dissolved in 1887.

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