Browse Listings in Globes, Instruments & Fans
A folding fan showing Cleopatra at the Gates of Alexandria, circa 1750-1760.
The fan shows Cleopatra at the Gates of Alexandria, where she welcomes Julius Caesar who came to visit her in 48BC. Her suite is made up of soldiers and maids. The arriva...
Place & Date: English, ca. 1750-1760
Steel compass with a gilded radiating pattern.
Steel compass with a gilded radiating pattern.Provenance : Collection Henri-Claude Randier.
Place & Date: ca. 1760
A cordiform - heart-shaped - horary quadrant marked with Gunter scales.
A small and charming but very fine heart-shaped horary quadrant marked with Gunter scales. The scales are very finely engraved on both sides.The quadrant was a very pract...
Place & Date: ca. 1720-1760
Inverted nautical Compass, called "mouchard" (~ "spy")
Inverted maritime compass called "mouchard" (spy) in wood and brass, signed "A Van Vastenhoud In Amsterdam". This type of compass was found in the cap...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1780
Globe, Miniature, Terrestrial Pocket Globe in Celestial Case
A pocket globe, of typical form, the terrestrial globe with engraved hand-colored gores, having holes at the poles but no axis pins (as issued). The globe is contained wi...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1780
Mariner’s compass
Inverted compass called "snitch" in wood painted in imitation of tortoiseshell and brass, signed "Ing MANN Maker Water Street Liverpool".
Place & Date: Liverpool, ca. 1785
An elegant couple with a caged bird in a landscape.
Folding fan made of skin sheet and mounted in English style, with a painted scene of an elegant couple with a caged bird in a landscape.Painted verso of a man among ancie...
Place & Date: Paris, 1790
A ship's hour glass
The element common to celestial position-finding, the calculation of speed for dead reckoning and even everyday life at sea is the time: hence ways of determining and kee...
Place & Date: ca. 1790
Two sheets for constructing an armillary sphere.
Two sheets for constructing an armillary sphere. Cassini was a geographer and cartographer, but also perspective and architecture carver - one of Giovanni Battista Pirane...
Place & Date: Rome, 1795
Early 19th century magnetic dry card compass with wooden bowl,
Brass dry rose marine compass, in its mahogany case. The mariner's compass, which enabled mariners to know the direction in which they were sailing, has always been one o...
Place & Date: ca. 1800