Lot 150: A RARE PAIR OF 12-INCH TABLE GLOBES, GEORG CHRISTOPH EIMMART, GERMAN, CIRCA 1705

A RARE PAIR OF 12-INCH TABLE GLOBES, GEORG CHRISTOPH EIMMART, GERMAN, CIRCA 1705

CIRCA 1705

51cm. 20in. high

the terrestrial globe with cartouche reading L F, Cum Geographica Orbis / Terrarum Descriptio Sucundum long. / et lat. non nisi vel per peregrinationes ma- / ritimas vel Observationes Coelestes emen- / datior in dies prodeat, istud autem per ex- / perimenta propria (quoad exiguam sal- / tem partem) perfecisse, e mille vix uni / contigat; Oportuit nos Recentiorum / accuratissimis Observationibus insistere, / et quatenus cum Veritate congruant vel / discrepent exactiori Tuo judicio relinquere / Nos eadem Loca, bona fide nihil immu / tantes, prout ab Authoribus novissimis / accepimus, Usui Tuo exhibemus. / Norimbergae / apud / G. C. Eimmartum / Ao. Chr. 1705; the celestial globe with cartouche reading Loca Stellarum Coelsti huic Globo inser / tarum a IO. HEVELIO Astrono / mo insigni, ad Ann 1700 complet / sumo studio ac diuturnis vigiliis re- / stituta sunt: Quae in hujus modi Typum / ad perpetuam Coeli conformitatem, / juxta modem, quem problema in- / ferius adjectum praescribit, / noviter redacter / a / G. C. Eimmarto; each globe with twenty four half gores and two polar calottes, graduated brass meridian ring, brass hour ring to the terrestrial globe, each oak and walnut stand of four turned tapered legs supporting the circular horizontal ring applied with printed zodiacal calendar, the plain stretchers supporting a turned base, on turned bun feet

NOTE

Georg Christoph Eimmart was born in Regensburg in 1638. By 1660 he had moved to Nuremberg and by 1677 he was studying astronomy. His only globes were published in 1705, the year of his death.