This incredible pair of table globes was crafted by Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr of Nuremberg, Germany. Both scientifically useful tools and brilliantly decorative, these spheres represent the finest of this craft. Resting in classically-inspired oak stands, the globes are mounted in engraved brass meridian rings. Octagonal wooden horizon rings are covered with engraved and hand-colored paper showing degrees of amplitude and azimuth in four quadrants, the days of the houses of the Zodiac, and the days of the months with saints’ feast days.

The terrestrial globe features the portraits of famous explorers, such as Americo Vespucci, Magelhaens, Olivier van Noort, Dampier and Columbus, surrounding a second cartouche in the southern Pac