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Rossi, Giuseppe de. 1570-1639, and Domenico de Rossi. 1659-1730. After Jodocus Hondius. [A set of 12 engraved gores to make a 21 cm diameter (8 inch) terrestrial globe.] Rome: Dated 1615, but reissued by Domenico de Rossi, [c.1700]. image 1
Rossi, Giuseppe de. 1570-1639, and Domenico de Rossi. 1659-1730. After Jodocus Hondius. [A set of 12 engraved gores to make a 21 cm diameter (8 inch) terrestrial globe.] Rome: Dated 1615, but reissued by Domenico de Rossi, [c.1700]. image 2
Rossi, Giuseppe de. 1570-1639, and Domenico de Rossi. 1659-1730. After Jodocus Hondius. [A set of 12 engraved gores to make a 21 cm diameter (8 inch) terrestrial globe.] Rome: Dated 1615, but reissued by Domenico de Rossi, [c.1700]. image 3
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Rossi, Giuseppe de. 1570-1639, and Domenico de Rossi. 1659-1730. After Jodocus Hondius.
[A set of 12 engraved gores to make a 21 cm diameter (8 inch) terrestrial globe.] Rome: Dated 1615, but reissued by Domenico de Rossi, [c.1700].

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Rossi, Giuseppe de. 1570-1639, and Domenico de Rossi. 1659-1730. After Jodocus Hondius.

[A set of 12 engraved gores to make a 21 cm diameter (8 inch) terrestrial globe.] Rome: Dated 1615, but reissued by Domenico de Rossi, [c.1700].
Two engraved gore sheets comprising 12 gores, to make up a 21 cm diameter terrestrial globe, each sheet 325 x 325 mm (plate mark). The sheets with full deckle edges, old vertical creases, but no signs of guards on versos, very light soiling and spotting mostly to the margins. Bound plano in modern calf.

A fine and rare set of globe gores, a reissue by Domenico de Rossi in Rome of Giuseppe de Rossi's 20 cm diameter terrestrial globe issued in Milan/Rome in 1615, itself a straight copy with a new Roman dedicatee of the Hondius's 1601 terrestrial globe made in Amsterdam. A fine example of the habit of Italian plagiarism in the 17th century globe market. The engraved plates of the 1615 terrestrial globe were inherited by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, his son, who came to be based in Rome. Domenico de Rossi, born Domenico Freddiani, was adopted by Giovanni in 1679, trained him as an engraver and made him his heir, with Domenico taking over the running of his shop in Rome from about 1691. These two copperplates were obviously rediscovered in that period, and re-issued around 1700. There appear to be few, if any, of either the constructed globe or gore sheets in institutional hands, with just one gore sheet example, misattributed to 1644, being offered on the market in recent years. Domenico is better known for his view books of Rome. Cf. Shirley Mapping of the World 289 (Giuseppe's version 1615); Cf. Dekker Globes at Greenwich GLB0153.

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