Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Peter van der Krogt -- Foreword / Günter Schilder -- Acknowledgements / Peter van der Krogt -- Introduction / Peter van der Krogt -- 1. Globes Before and During the Renaissance / Peter van der Krogt -- 2. Early Globe Production in the Low Countries (ca. 1526-1551) / Peter van der Krogt -- 3. Amsterdam: Production 1585-1598: Van Langren vs. Hondius / Peter van der Krogt -- 4. Amsterdam, the First Years after 1597: Seventeen New Globes / Peter van der Krogt -- 5. Amsterdam, 1605 - ca. 1650: Consolidation of the Monopoly / Peter van der Krogt -- 6. Globe Use and Globe Users in the Seventeenth Century / Peter van der Krogt -- 7. Globemakers in the Southern Provinces, 1580-1650 / Peter van der Krogt -- 8. Reprints by Joan Blaeu and followers after ca. 1650 / Peter van der Krogt -- 9. The Eighteenth Century: Valk’s Globe Factory / Peter van der Krogt -- 10. Globes for the General Public / Peter van der Krogt -- 11. The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: From ‘Etablissement Géographique de Bruxelles’ to ‘Eerste Nederlandsche Globe Industrie’ / Peter van der Krogt -- 12. Conclusion / Peter van der Krogt -- Colour plates / Peter van der Krogt -- Introduction / Peter van der Krogt -- 1. Globes from the Southern Netherlands (sixteenth century) / Peter van der Krogt -- 2. The Globes made in Amsterdam (ca. 1585-1650) / Peter van der Krogt -- 3. The eighteenth Century / Peter van der Krogt -- 1. Charters for Globes / Peter van der Krogt -- 2. Van Langren vs. Hondius: Resolutions and Responses / Peter van der Krogt -- 3. Contract between Hendrik Floris van Langren and Jacob Reyersz., February 1, 1608 / Peter van der Krogt -- 4. Arnold Floris van Langren’s Request for an Advance on his Salary, 1609/10 / Peter van der Krogt -- 5. Inventory of Jan Jansz. van Ceulen’s Globe Shop, 1689 / Peter van der Krogt -- 6. Survey of User Manuals Published in the Northern Provinces, ca. 1585-ca. 1650 / Peter van der Krogt -- Back Matter -- Reference Bibliography / Peter van der Krogt -- Quotations / Peter van der Krogt -- Abbreviations and Globe codes / Peter van der Krogt -- Photographic credits / Peter van der Krogt -- Index of names / Peter van der Krogt.

With bibliography of globes made in the Low Countries, ca. 1525-1800.

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