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Spirinx, Nicolas. Fl.1606-1643.
[Celestial globe gores.] [Lyons]: Dated 1610.

5 December 2018, 14:00 EST
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Spirinx, Nicolas. Fl.1606-1643.

[Celestial globe gores.] [Lyons]: Dated 1610.
A single engraved sheet of 12 gores making up a celestial globe, sheet size 190 x 365 mm, diameter of globe 116 mm. First gore with dedicatory cartouche and the 3rd gore with maker's name and date. Several repaired tears, the sheet backed on archival paper, one small hole in gore 10 repaired, light surface marks. In a window mount.

A rare celestial globe sheet. Shirley Mapping of the World 271 records two sets of globe gores, both celestial and terrestrial, in the Newberry Library, Chicago and at Yale University. Shirley looked at both of these sets and considered both were 19th-century pulls. This sheet is a strong sharp impression with a flattened plate mark on an archivally preserved sheet of paper.

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