Detail of Africa from a terrestrial globe 1645/48 (plaster, wood & engraved paper)

dDetail from a large pair of Dutch 68cm Library Globes by Willem Blaeu (1571-1638); The terrestrial: made up of thirty-six hand-coloured engraved half gores and two polar calottes, pasted onto a plaster sphere, with a detailed and inscribed cartouche to each hemisphere as called for by P. van der Krogt (state 4), the equatorial graduated and labeled every 10 degrees, each degree divided into thirds and alternately hand-coloured in red, blank and blue, the meridian similarly labelled and coloured, the prime meridian of Tenerife is used, the continents with mountains, rivers and towns named in Latin and decorated with animals, figures and monsters.