A PAIR OF 8-INCH GERMAN TABLE GLOBES

WOLFGANG JENIG, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF 8-INCH GERMAN TABLE GLOBES
Wolfgang Jenig, late 18th Century
each signed on the graduated meridian ring Jenig fecit, the terrestrial cartouche GLOBUS TERRESTRIS NOVUS Loca Terrae insigniora sec. praestant: Astron. et Gregor. observationes sistens, opera IOH. GABR DOPPLEMAIEIRI MPP concinne traditus à Ioh. Georg. Puschnero Chalcographe Norib. A.C. 1730. made up of twelve hand coloured engraved gores, graduated ecliptic, tropics and equator, the oceans showing Dampier's circumnavigation of 1699-1702 (incorrectly marked '1688') and Captain Cook's second voyage of 1772-5; the celestial cartouche GLOBUS COELESTIS NOVUS Loca stellarum fixarum sec. cel. IOH. HEVELIUS ad anum 1730 exhibens Opera I.G. DOPPELMAIERI MPP exacte concinatus Chaleographo Norib A.C. 1730; each with engraved paper horizon ring showing months, days and saints' days, supported by the four turned oak legs joined by stretchers, with circular plate.
11½in. (29cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr published three pairs of globes of 10cm., 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 - it shares the legend Navigatio Dampieri 1688, and the wording on the cartouche in the Pacific ocean is identical. As Dekker and van der Krogt note in The World In Your Hands "The 20cm. version achieved great longevity, with the final edition being published by Johann Bauer in 1808".

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