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Greuter, Matthaeus. 1564-1638. [Two sets of globe gores for a Terrestrial and Celestial Globe, diameter 490 mm (19 inches).] Rome: the Terrestrial dated 1632, the Celestial 1636. image 1
Greuter, Matthaeus. 1564-1638. [Two sets of globe gores for a Terrestrial and Celestial Globe, diameter 490 mm (19 inches).] Rome: the Terrestrial dated 1632, the Celestial 1636. image 2
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Greuter, Matthaeus. 1564-1638.
[Two sets of globe gores for a Terrestrial and Celestial Globe, diameter 490 mm (19 inches).] Rome: the Terrestrial dated 1632, the Celestial 1636.

5 December 2018, 14:00 EST
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US$30,000 - US$50,000

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Greuter, Matthaeus. 1564-1638.

[Two sets of globe gores for a Terrestrial and Celestial Globe, diameter 490 mm (19 inches).] Rome: the Terrestrial dated 1632, the Celestial 1636.
48 engraved gore sheets, making up two globes, each globe made up of 24 engraved globe gores, each gore sheet on a tall piece of paper 420 x 140 mm, both globes signed by Greuter in the cartouches. Some light discoloration and spotting of the northern "Western Europe" and the celestial "title cartouche" gore sheets, other sheets with occasional light spotting or staining mostly to the blank margins. Each sheet mounted on paper guards, modern speckled calf, bound to style, spine gilt in seven compartments.

A rare original Greuter globe pair gore set for the 1632/36 terrestrial/celestial 19 inch pair. Although there have been a number of Greuter globe pairs coming up for auction, the last at Christie's London, December 2013, (80,000 pounds), but for engraved gore sets the last to appear was in Christie's in Italy in December 1998 (25 million Lire).
Matthaeus Greuter was born in Strasbourg and worked as an engraver in Avignon and Lyons before arriving in Rome in 1606. The 1632/38 pair and the 10 inch 1636/38 pair were the only globes he completed in his lifetime, both based on Blaeu. His celestial globe depicts the constellations in 1635 using star patterns from Tycho Brahe. After Greuter's death in 1638, Giovanni de Rossi and Domenica de Rossi republished the small and large pairs of globes.

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