Didier Robert DE VAUGONDY. Globe Terrestre; Globe Celeste. Paris, Terrestrial 1773; Celestial c. 1764 Cartographer_Petrus Apianus or Year of Miracles

or Year of Miracles

4 August-3 September 1989 (a selection)

Vellum size: 18 1/2 x 13 in

a series of 435 aquatints that have only grown in fame since the time of their first appearance

Didier Robert DE VAUGONDY. Globe Terrestre; Globe Celeste. Paris, Terrestrial 1773; Celestial c. 1764 Cartographer_Petrus Apianus or Year of MiraclesA pair of Louis XV terrestrial and celestial library globes on green painted and parcel gilt stands. Each globe made up of two pairs of hand colored engraved gores, each with polar calottes. Brass hour circles, the terrestrial mounted on the meridian with its pointer arm, and with the celestial mounted below the meridian without the pointer, brass meridians graduated on one face. Hexagonal horizon bars with original papers, supported by a curved four