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Anthony Outred (Antiques) Ltd
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Terrestrial Globe on Stand
( Germany
c. 1871
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Description / Expertise
A MAGNIFICENT AND IMPORTANT TERRESTRIAL GLOBE
AFTER DESIGNS BY C. ADAMI UPDATED BY DR. HEINRICH
KIEPERT, AND PUBLISHED BY VERLAG DIETRICH REIMER,
ON A CARVED DECORATED AND PARCEL GILT STAND
Berlin
Circa 1871.
The globe engraved with, Erdglobus, nach derm ent wurf, V.C Adami, im verhltniss von 1:16,500,000 der naturlichen Grosse, bearbeitet u. gezeichnet, Von Dr. Heinrich Kiepert, Berlin 1871, Dietrich Reimer ….., made up of two sets of twenty-four gores,
the octagonal ecliptic graduated with degrees, the zodiac and calendar months, the meridian papered and printed with graduated degrees of longitude and latitude, the stand with an egg and dart moulding, on four acanthus leaf carved supports, the baluster support carved with flowers and leaves, on a triform support, the three splayed legs carved with acanthus, on paw feet, joined by a stretcher centred by a cased barometer.
There is a remarkably similar example of a Kiepert and Reimer globe on a comparable carved and decorated stand in the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich dated 18*1 (possibly the same year) and the same inscription positioned on the Indian Ocean, see Elly Dekker, Globes at Greenwich, London, 1999, p.470, inv. no. GLB0088.
In 1852 the firm of Carl Adami & Co., Berlin, was taken over by the publishing house Dietrich Reimer (1818-1899). In the same year Reimer employed the highly innovative Heinrich Kiepert, (1818-1899) an established geographer and cartographer. This foundation and then partnership would firmly establish the company of Verlag Dietrich Reimer as one of the very best. Kieperts reputation was solid, having worked at the respected Geographisches Institut in Weimar where in 1846 he developed his first thematic globe. Two years after joining Reimer the first edition of the Atlas Antiquus was published, a highly regarded work on the geography of ancient history, a passion of Kieperts, this received international recognition, with additions in English, French, Russian, Dutch and Italian. As a highly skilled cartographer he re-worked globes produced by Adami for Reimer, eventually developing his own. By the end of the nineteenth century he had issued six different types of terrestrial globes in varying sizes for use in the home library as well as in schools. Kiepert was also a leading authority on the geography of Asia Minor and it was in part, this work, much of which was published posthumously by his son Richard, which has insured his status as one of the great map and globe makers of the nineteenth century.
Measurements: 63 ” ( 160 cm ) High 43.25“ ( 110 cm ) Diameter
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