Description complete ou Second avertissement sur les grands globes terrestres et celestes auxquels la Societé Cosmographique établie à Nuremberg fait travailler actuellement
By: par George-Maurice Lovviz, de la Societé Cosmographique & desinateur des susdits globes..
Contributors: Franz, Johann Michael; Homann Erben (Firm)
Publisher: Au Bureau geographique de Homann.
Published: 1749
Place of publication: Nuremberg]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Globes; Globe industry
Other titles: Description complete; Second avertissement sur les grands globes terrestres et celestes auxquels la Societé Cosmographique établie à Nuremberg fait travailler actuellement
Notes: Prosepctus advertising the production of two 3 feet in diameter globes, one terrestrial and one celestial, to be constructed according to the most recent geographical knowledge. They were to be produced by the Societé Cosmographique in Nuremberg aand made by the firm of Homann headed by Johann Michael Franz. This second prosepctus includes an engraved blank form to be filled out by subscribers and a hand-colored folded globe gore made for the terrestrial globe. The Grands globes project was annouced in 1746 in a pamphlet written by Johann Michael Franz entitled "Avertissement des heritiers de Homann sur la construction de grands globes" and printed in Nuremberg (also appearing in German in Nurgemberg under title "Homännischer Bericht von Verfertigung grosser Welt-Kugeln"). In 1753 a third notice, "Troisieme avertissement sur les grands globes où la Societé des Sciences Cosmographiques de Nurenberg rend compte au public du petardement de cet ouvrage" was printed in Nuremberg and also written by Lowitz, apologizing for the delay and noting the progress. However, according to Dekker and van der Krogt in their "Globes from the western world", London, 1993, (page 99, plate 23), the project was never finished.

Signatures: A-E⁴ (A1 verso blank).

Engraved printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initial.

Purchase; 2019; 20-140.