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Lot 426

[Cassini, Giovanni Maria. 1745-c.1830.]
Circolo per formare la sfera Armilare [armillary sphere]. Rome: Presso la Calcografica Camerale, 1795.

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[Cassini, Giovanni Maria. 1745-c.1830.]

Circolo per formare la sfera Armilare [armillary sphere]. Rome: Presso la Calcografica Camerale, 1795.
Two hand-colored engraved sheets, comprising the components to create an armillary sphere, with miniature terrestrial globe gores, hand-colored in outline, meridian bars, zodiacal designs, and other circles and bars, each sheet 410 x 570 mm. Some light staining to the lower margin of one sheet, creasing down center fold.

A rare armillary sphere gore set engraved by an Italian engraver, Bernardino Olivieri, for G.M.Cassini, the sheets printed at the business address of Giovanni Maria Cassini, and engraved under his direction. The paper is Dutch, watermarked Van Der Ley. Only one set of these gore sheets has appeared at auction in the last two decades. Christies Exhibition, The World in your Hands (London: 1994), 6.6.

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