Dec 08, 2015 - Sale 2401

Sale 2401 - Lot 177

Unsold
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 25,000
(GLOBES.) Doppelmayr, Johann Gabriel. Globus Terrestris Novus [and] Globus Coelestis Novis. Together a pair of exceptional German 8-inch table globes, each composed of 12 engraved gores. Mounted in later wood stands, wanting horizons, with brass meridian supports; few small stabilized cracks, the celestial globe wanting its brass hour ring, the terrestrial with the hour ring loosely attached. Nuremberg: 1739 (terrestrial); 1750 (celestial)