Cassini, Giovanni Maria

Globo Terrestre Delineato sulle ultime osservazioni Con i Viaggi e nuove scoperte del Cap. Cook Inglese — Globo Celeste Calcolato per il corrente anno sulle Osservazzioni del Sigg. Flamsteed, e de La Caille. Rome: Presso la Calcografia Camerale, 1790 - 1792



10 engraved double-page mapsheets, the terrestral gores in 6, the celestial gores in 4 (25¼ x 17¾; 642 x 451 mm), all with fine contemporary handcoloring; Terrestral: light dampstaining and spotting to Pacific Island gores, minor tears to right margin of sheet with gores of the months and zodiac neatly repaired, ballpoint annotation to verso of gores of the Far East with slight bleed through to the bottom margin outside platemark. Celestial: all 4 sheets browned. All sheets previously folded through center.  Loose in a modern cloth portfolio.

Terrestral: Dahl & Gauvin, Sphaerae Mundi early globes at the Stewart Museum, p.131-134; Dekker, P. 66; David Rumsey Map Collection: http://www.davidrumsey.com/xmaps10001.html; Celestial: Dekker, p. 66; David Rumsey Map Collection: http://www.davidrumsey.com/maps1151149-31762.html

When assembled, the gores produce a globe that is 34 centimeters in diameter. The terrestral globe shows contemporary discoveries in the Pacific as well as the routes of three of Captain James Cook's voyages. Cassini was a cartographer and publisher in Rome, and was the last important globe maker in eighteenth-century Italy.