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Habrecht II, Isaac. 1589-1633.
Planiglobium Coeleste ac Terrestre ... Johannis Christophori Sturmii ... edita. Nuremberg: Christopher Gerhard, [1666].

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Habrecht II, Isaac. 1589-1633.

Planiglobium Coeleste ac Terrestre ... Johannis Christophori Sturmii ... edita. Nuremberg: Christopher Gerhard, [1666].
4to (205 x 150 mm). 2 parts in one volume, general printed title, titles to Coeleste and Terrestre sections with engraved figures of globes, 14 folding engraved plates after Jacob von Heyden, a few tears along folds, with final blank SS4, 5 engraved illustrations, the dedication leaf browned and some early leaves spotted. Contemporary calf, rubbed, joints cracked, lacking front free endpaper.

The 3rd edition of the Planiglobium, Halbrecht's work on the construction of globes. This edition has the 14 folding engraved plates, 10 concerning a celestial globe (2 of the celestial planes, 8 of the construction of the stand) and 4 concerning a terrestrial globe (2 of north and south polar projections). These plates are mostly dated to 1666, excepting one dated 1628. They were first published in Tractatum de Planiglobi (Strasbourg: 1628), but here updated by Habrecht's pupil Sturm in Nuremberg, this work to be issued alongside Paulus Furst's reissue of the Habrecht 1621 globes. Shirley Mapping of the World 324 discusses the terrestrial plates of the 1628 issue. Auction records record just 3 complete copies of this work at auction since 1979: the Honeyman copy in 1979, the Macclesfield copy in 2004, and a folio-sized copy with unfolded plate sheets at Christie's in 2010 for 10,000 pounds. Houzeau and Lancaster 3039.

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