[(?)]JENIG, Wolfgang Paul (d. 1805), Nuremberg]
[(?)]JENIG, Wolfgang Paul (d. 1805), Nuremberg]

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[(?)]JENIG, Wolfgang Paul (d. 1805), Nuremberg]
GLOBUS TERRESTRIS NOVUS
An 8-inch (20.3cm.) diameter terrestrial table globe, made up of twelve hand coloured engraved gores, the equatorial graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days and showing the symbols of the houses of the zodiac, the continents coloured and outlined, the oceans showing Dampier's circumnavigation of 1699-1702 (incorrectly marked '1688') and Captain Cook's second voyage of 1772-5 (dented, gore tips worn at North pole), with brass meridian ring divided into four quadrants, with cut outs for hour ring (lacking), with engraved paper horizon ring divided into four quadrants, showing months, days and saints' days, supported by the four turned oak legs joined by stretchers, with circular plate and centrepost (some wear with loss of paper to horizon ring) -- 11½in. (29cm.) high

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Literature
Lothar Zögner Die Welt In Händen (Berlin, 1989)
Elly Dekker and Peter van der Krogt Globes From The Western World (London, 1993)
Tom Lamb and Jeremy P. Collins (ed.) The World In Your Hands (London, 1994)
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Please note that this Lot is subject to 2½ VAT, not 17 as marked in the catalogue.

Lot Essay

Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr published three pairs of globes of 10cm. (cf. lot xx), 20cm. and 32cm diameters between 1728 and 1736, which were updated and republished by Jenig between circa 1789 and 1795, after Doppelmayr's death. This globe certainly uses the Doppelmayr gores - when compared with Zögner VIII/6 (a Doppelmayr 20cm. globe) it shares the legend Navigatio Dampieri 1688, and the wording on the cartouche in the Pacific ocean is identical. Although the label on the present example has been pasted over a previous one, comparison with item 1/13 (a Jenig reissue of Doppelmayr's 20cm. terrestrial globe) in The World In Your Hands would suggest that it is by Jenig, who, according to Dekker and van der Krogt: "added ... the route of Captain Cook's second voyage in search of the antarctic continent" to his reissue of Doppelmayr's 32cm globe (p. 92). However, Jenig often signed the meridian ring (cf lot xx), which is not the case with this globe, and, as The World In Your Hands notes, "The 20cm. version achieved great longevity, with the final edition being published by Johann Bauer in 1808" (p. 56), so this example could be a Bauer reissue.

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