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(Northern celestial planisphere with a pasted volvelle.)
Probably by the Vienna astronomer Melchior Klayber who used the Copernican precession theory, which is closely connected with the chart (Ptolemy - 6° 40' and Ptolemy - 5...
Place & Date: Vienna, ca. 1569
Introductio ad Geographiam. Caput I.
Four pages with an introduction to geography in Latin with woodcut illustrations of diagrams of the solar system.
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
N°2. Horologium Horizontale Paralle los Horizontis cum Hor: a meridie numeratis ostendens.
This beautiful engraving is a horological diagram with at bottom a 32-point wind rose and signed underneath "Franciscus Ritter N fac:".Remarkable for the elabor...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1640
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 at bottom a 32-point wind rose and signed underneath "M:Franciscus Ritter N fac A° 1640".Remarkable for ...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1640
N°7. Horologium Horizontale parallelos Horizontis Exhibens ad Poliarctici elevationem XLVIIII Grad XXIIII Scrupul Ec.
This beautiful engraving is a horological diagram with at bottom a 32-point wind rose and signed underneath "M:Franciscus Ritter N fac A° 1640".Remarkable for ...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1640
N°5. Horologium Horizontale signa zodiaci ascendentia : ec.cotinens ad latitud XLVIIII : GR: XXIIII: SCR ee.
This beautiful engraving is a horological diagram with at bottom a 32-point wind rose and signed underneath "M:Franciscus Ritter N fac A° 1640".Remarkable for ...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1640
Coeli Stellati Christiani Haemisphaerium Prius.
Scarce first issue. This spectacular celestial chart presents the constellations according to Christian symbolism. The view of the constellations is based on the work of ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Itroductio. [with sphere.]
Introduction leaf from a French text edition of Atlas Ma1or
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Le monde et sa disposition suivant Ptolomée.
The Christian Aristotelian cosmos. Ptolemy accepted the following order for celestial objects in the solar system: Earth (center), Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupite...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, 1667
La Voye Laictee, Pole Arctique. [Figure XXXIX. On verso]
Nice small celestial chart showing the northern sky with ten major constellations named. Fine engravure on verso depicting a cherubin using an astronomical telescope.From...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Paris, 1683