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Wonderful and extremely rare Dutch pocketglobe
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Only three copies worldwide.
Miniature terrestrial pocket globe in a celestial case made by Johannes Deur.
Amsterdam, 1720.
Diameter of 2,5 inches / 6 cm. 2 legends are inscribed and seen. One is in the Pacific Ocean in a small cartouche: t’AMSTERDAM / Excudit / Iohannes Deur. The second is in the Indian Ocean: I. Deur Fecit.
There are only three recorded examples of Johannes Deur’s pocket globes. Two of these reside in museums. The first is in Leiden: Museum Boerhaave and the second is in Krakow: Museum of the Jagiellonian. The third is held privately and its precise location is unknown. The globe itself comprises 12 beautifully hand coloured copper engraved gores and two polar calottes. An extremely well-coloured and beautiful set of celestial gores, glued to the inside of the original fish-skin case depict the two hemispheres as a wonderful combination of mythical beasts and figures. The text is in Latin. The original colouring on this globe and the inside of the case is exquisite and exceptional; There are traces of gilt still to be found on graduated lines on the terrestrial globe, and on some of the celestial figures. The globe features graduated ecliptic and equator circles with degrees alternately highlighted with gilt. There are nautical rhumblines in the oceans. Meridians and parallels are every 10 degrees. Prime meridian of Ferro.
TERRESTRIAL GLOBE DESCRIPTION: This scarce pocket globe depicts simple geography; before Bering’s discoveries in the north Pacific Ocean. The continents are all seen in glorious original hand colour. No Antarctic continent is shown, and there appear to be no speculative or imaginary coastlines engraved. There are, however, the prevailing cartographic curiosities and anomalies; there is no coastal information alluding to northwestern Canada; only a partial coastline is given between Japan and America (“Terra Esonis”); Central America is simply named ‘Hispania Nova’; Japan still appears misshapen; North America comprises only regions named ‘Florida’, ‘Nova Francia’, and ‘New Mexico’. California is still seen as a separate island off the western coast. Australia (“Hollandia Nova”) still appears with an incomplete coastline, with only the merest hint of a coastline to “Terre van Diemen” (Tasmania) and to New Zealand. South America is a mixture of names and regions we identify with today (Guiana, Paraguay, Chili, Peru), and names that no longer apply (Brasilia, Terra Firma, Terre Magellanica.) Paraguay and Guiana are both outsized, Brazil is only a fraction of its actual size, and ‘Terre Magellanica’ stretches from the tip of South America right up to the River Plate in today’s Argentina. The mighty Amazon River is well-defined. India is covered by Indostan, much of Turkey is called Natolia, and Persia covers much of today’s Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, etc. Tartary Magna covers Russian central Asia, Siberia is mentioned to the north, and Muscovy is the term for western (European) Russia. Europe is well-defined, much as we know it today, as it was the ruling power and was well-known and well-mapped. The continent of Africa is much the same as South America, with a mixture of old regions and more modern names; Barbaria for the north African ‘Barbary’ countries, the Sahara Desert is spelled ‘Saara’, ‘Abissinorum’ covers Ethiopia and surrounds, Nigritarum covers a far portion of western Africa, and the former country of Biledulgerid is engraved.
CELESTIAL DESCRIPTION: Inlaid inside the fish-skin case are 12 lovely original hand-coloured copper engraved gores, an amount of which was/is heightened in gilt. They wonderfully depict the constellations of both the northern and southern hemispheres via signs of the zodiac or mythical figures and beasts. On one hemisphere there is a small cartouche bearing the inscription ‘Magnitudo Stellarum’. Some of the signs and figures to be found are Virgo, Libra, Sagittarius, Hercules, a Crown, a Cross, Triangle, Sextant, Crater, Hydra, Cancer, Leo, Canis, Scorpio, Gemini, Serpents…
JOHANNES DEUR: Little is known of Johannes Deur (1667-1734). He was a high-class engraver of maps and charts in Amsterdam. His pocket globes were sold by the bookseller Hendrik de Leth in that city. His extremely high level of craftsmanship and the quality of his work mark him as one of the very best cartographical engravers of 18th-century Europe. He may have been related to Abraham Deur, who was an engraver to de Wit. A unique and rare opportunity to acquire an extremely desirable pocket globe in excellent condition, one that has barely ever come to market and made available to the buying public. A unique and rare opportunity to acquire an extremely desirable pocket globe in excellent condition, one that has barely ever come to market and made available to the buying public.
Sale results: One copy was sold at Christie’s on the 25th of April 2013 for USD 85.154,00.
Literature: Van der Krogt, Globi Neerlandici. 3.2. Johannes Deur. DEU I. pp. 571/572.
- Creator:Dementz Family DEUR Art Company (Maker)
- Dimensions:Height: 2.5 in (6.35 cm)Diameter: 2.5 in (6.35 cm)
- Style:Dutch Colonial (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:1730
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:ZWIJNDRECHT, NL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU9419239074322
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