Condition Report
Contact Information
Lot 368
Sale 697 - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Nov 6, 2019
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
Own a similar item?
Estimate
$2,000 -
3,000
Price Realized
$3,750
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
GREUTER, Matthaeus (1564-1638). A set of gores for a celestial globe. Rome: Matthäus Greuter, 1636 [or Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, 1695?].
24 engraved half-gores on 6 sheets (each with 4 half-gores), each sheet c.165 x c.270mm (a few trimmed slightly smaller). (Without the 2 polar calottes, a few wormholes repaired slightly affecting printed areas, minor soiling.) Matted together and framed (unexamined out of frame).
The gores were first published in 1636 in Rome, but these may be from the more common de Rossi edition of 1695.
Property from The Western Union Company