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A fine and rare late 16th/early 17th-Century 2½-inch diameter silver terrestrial globe
A fine and rare late 16th/early 17th-Century 2½-inch diameter silver terrestrial globe, unsigned but after the Demongenet tradition, made up of two engraved hemispheres joined with a narrow gap at the ecliptic, this graduated in 12x 1-30° with sigils, numbered every 10° with no further subdivisions, the equator labelled EQVATOR Longitudo , ungraduated and unnumbered, the first day of Aries crossing just East of Brazil, the polar and tropic circles depicted by narrow bands unbroken by cartography (apart from the southern polar circle), the latter labelled TROPICVS CANCRI and TROPICVS CAPRIC , meridians every 15°, parallels every 10°, a note on the meridian at 0° Longitudo regi/onum and on the one at 15°E AMPHISCII between the tropics, HE [T] ERO under Capricorn and PERISCII within the Antarctic circle, another note off the Cape of Good Hope HOEMISPÆR Lusita [n] o Rx por , the oceans with pictures of sailing ships and sea monsters, the continents showing rivers and mountains in pictorial relief, place names and small crowns to indicate kingdoms, southern Africa with a picture of an elephant, Japan shown but not named in the separation between North America and Asia, the large southern continent with a note Terra nond: ple: ne cognita Inuenta A o1499 , mounted in a fluted ivory meridian half-circle with removable pin knop and pointers aligning with the polar circles, raised on a baluster turned ivory column and circular plinth base -- 16.5cm. (6½in.) high