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N°3. Horologium Horizontale Horas a meridie et media nocte Numeratas continens ad latitudinem XLIX GR XXIII Minut ec.

This beautiful engraving is a horological diagram with a 32-point wind rose at the bottom, signed underneath "M:Franciscus Ritter N fac A° 1640."It is remarkab...

$750 / ≈ €657
Maker / Publisher: RITTER, F.
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1640

 


Vue de la Rivière d'Endeavour sur la Côte de la Nouvelle Hollande ou le Vaisseau fut mis à la bande. [Tome IV Pl. 1ère.]

The first known landscape drawing of the east coast of Australia. A View of the Endeavour River, on the coast of New Holland, where the ship was laid on shore, in order t...

$280 / ≈ €245
Maker / Publisher: COOK, Captain James.
Place & Date: Paris, 1773

 


Globe terrestre d'après les découvertes..

Attractive and large (height 112cm) library globe by a prominent Paris globe maker, with a brass meridian circle, horizon ring and hour ring, supported by four brass quad...

$6000 / ≈ €5256
Maker / Publisher: BERTAUX.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1885

 


Imposita saxo Jacob cervice quiescens Aligeros scalas vidit imre choros. Gene[sis] 28

A superb example of this illustration showing a blind Isaac blessing Jacob. Copper engraving published in " Thesaurus sacrarum historiarum veteris testamenti, elegan...

$300 / ≈ €263
Maker / Publisher: DE JODE, G.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1585