SEUTTER, MATTHAUS (1678-1757), A

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SEUTTER, MATTHAUS (1678-1757), A
Globus Terrestris juxta recentissimas observatiam, et navigationes perittissimer. Geograph accuratisime delineat cura et sumtibus Matth. Seutleri. & Chalgcogr: August. [n.d. but ca. 1710]
A terrestrial table globe, 8-inch (20cm.) diameter, made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, polar calottes, the globe profusely hand-coloured, title cartouche in South Pacific, small descriptive cartouches in Africa (describing source of the Nile) and North Pacific, six decorative wind-roses, traces of gold highlighting to cartouches (minor restoration, revarnished), engraved meridian circle, later brass hour-ring, original horizon gores remounted on later horizon circle, the globe mounted on a Dutch-style ebonised and oak stand, the horizon supported by four turned ebonised legs, cross-beams supporting base plate with centre post -- 12in. (30cm.) high

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A rare small table globe by the German engraver and cartographer Matthaus Seutter. Seutter was apprenticed to the mapmaker Johann Baptist Homann in Nuremberg and in 1707 moved to Augsburg. Although principally a map publisher, in 1710 he issued these 20cm. diameter globes, and went on to produce larger globes of 64cm. and 160cm. diameter

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