A rare celestial table globe by Johann Doppelmaier Nuremberg, dated 1730

the cartouche reading GLOBUS/ COELESTIS NOVIS/ Locastellarum fixarum/ sec. cel. IOH. HEVELIUM/ ad anum 1730 exhibens/ Opera/ I.G. DOPPELMAIERI M.P.P./ exacte concinatus/ a/ Ioh. Georg Puschnero/ Chalcographo Novib./ A.C. 1730, with twelve handcoloured paper gores applied on a papier mâché sphere, with a wooden stand applied with a handcoloured paper ring, brass meridian ring missing, imperfections

J.G. Doppelmayr (1677?-1750), Nuremberg astronomer, cartographer and professor of mathematics, began work on celestial charts in 1720 but only in 1728 he produced his first globe. In 1730 he added a celestial globe and the present globe of 20 cm, both celestial globes based in part on the work of Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687). Doppelmayr or his heirs revised his globes around the time of his death, and once more revised in the 1790s and early 1800s.