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.