A 12-INCH DUTCH CELESTIAL GLOBE
A 12-INCH DUTCH CELESTIAL GLOBE

COVENS, AFTER VALK, CIRCA 1803

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A 12-INCH DUTCH CELESTIAL GLOBE
COVENS, AFTER VALK, CIRCA 1803
comprised of 12 pairs of half gores and two polar calottes, hand-colouring, cartouche URANOGRAPHIA CAELUM Sive GLOBUS CAELESTIS à Gerardo Valk olimaere excusus nunc secundum norissimas observationes, ac multo emendiator editus à CORNELIO COVENS Calcographe 1803, with graduated brass collure, graduated brass meridian ring, supported in later wooden stand
21in. (53.5cm.) high

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An unusual late reissue of a Gerard Valk globe. Cornelis Covens bought the Valk globe factory from his widow Maria in the late 18th Century