Globe terrestre

A$45,000 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Dressé sur les Relations les plus nouvelles de Mrs. de l Académie Royale des Sciences par L. C. Desnos et J. B. Nolin Géographe. Se fait et se vends chez Desnos, rue St. Jacque St. Severin, Quartier de la Place Maubert. Paris, 1760, avec privilége du Roy. Dedié au Roy, par son trés humble trés obéissant et fidel sujet Desnos et monté par lui. Terrestrial globe, 265 mm in diameter; engraved gores and two polar calottes with original hand-colouring over plaster base (a few old sealed tears without loss); graduated equator, tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, ecliptic and Premiere Meridian fixe de l isle de fer (the prime meridian on the island of El Hierro which Louis XIII decreed in 1634); two cartouches including the dedication to the King sometimes found removed during the French Revolution decorative vignettes of exotic fauna, indigenous peoples, and maritime vessels, numerous coloured tracks of historical and contemporary explorers including Ferdinand Magellan, Jacob Le Maire and Willem Schouten, Louis de l Isle de la Croyere, Nicolas de Frondat, Aleksei Ilyich Chirikov, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, and Admiral George Anson; papier-mâché meridian ring with printed declination and elevation, engraved calendrical papier-mâché horizon ring with zodiac; edges painted red; supported on four papier-mâché quadrant arcs with the printed names of towns and their longitude and latitudes; turned wooden base and finial; total dimensions 600 x 390 mm; a few discreet signs of ol

• Binding: Hardcover

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