Terrestrial Globe

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About the Item

Rigobert Bonne (1727-1795)
Globe Terrestre...
Published in 1774
Height (in stand) 22 1/2 inches; diameter 12 inches.

This is an exceptional Louis XV terrestrial globe showing all principle towns, rivers, roads and mountain ranges shown, coastlines with hatching and with further green hand-colouring extending into the Oceans, Australia named Nouvelle Hollande and New South Wales marked with incomplete coastline with broken lines for interpolations which include Tasmania as a peninsula named Terre de Diemen, coastline of New Guinea broken in places, New Zealand shown but no Antarctic lands, Baye de l'Oiseau 16 janv. 1774. marked South-East of Madagascar, California named and shown as a peninsula, Western coast of America and Canada given but no detail inland, unnamed Manitoulin island shown in Lake Huron, no coast to North Canada, crude Alaskan outline, second cartouche to South Pacific A PARIS, Chez Lattré, Graveur ordre. de M. le Dauphin, de M. le Duc D'Orleans et de la Ville, ruë S. Jacq. vis-à-vis la ruë de la Parcheminerie. with decorative hand-coloured border.

The distinguished French engineer and Academician Rigobert Bonne achieved a considerable reputation as a cartographer, and it is his name that has been associated with the 6-, 8- and 12-inch globes rather than that of the engraver and publisher Jean Lattré (fl. 1722-1788), whose stock would later be purchased by Charles-François Delamarche. This present one-foot diameter terrestrial represents the first and largest appearance of Bonne's cartography on a globe. In 1775 the famed astronomer Joseph Jérôme le Français de Lalande (1732-1807) completed a complementary celestial globe, also engraved by Lattré, and the two were advertised as a pair in a pamphlet published by Lattré, entitled Nouveaux globes céleste et terrestre, d'un pied de diamètre, le céleste par M. de La Lande,... le terrestre par M. Bonne (Paris, 1775). Although Baie de l'Oiseau is marked with the date 16 January 1774, it was actually on the 6 January 1774 that Kerguelen officially took possession of the bay in the name of the King of France, in the course of his second voyage to the southern hemisphere.

The gold floral motif bears a similarity to those found on two Jean Fortin pocket globes held at Greenwich (GLB0031 & GLB0045) from the same period.

References
Dekker, E. Globes at Greenwich (Oxford, 1999); Stephenson, E.L. Terrestrial and Celestial Globes (Yale, 1921); Tooley, R.V. Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers (Tring, 1979).

Dimensions:
Height: 22.5 in (57.15 cm)Diameter: 12 in (30.48 cm)
Place of Origin:
France
Period:
18th Century and Earlier
Date of Manufacture:
c. 1774
Condition:
Overall good condition, oxidation.
Seller Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: 100503888921