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![[A magnificent 18 inch. (46 cm.) diameter celestial globe] URANOGRAPHIA / SYDERUM ET STELLARUM / in Singulis Syderibus conspicuarum / exhibens Delineationem accuratissimam, / qua / ex Observationibus Astronomi plane Singularis / IOHANIS HEVELII...](/uploads/cache/48959-250x250.jpg)
[A magnificent 18 inch. (46 cm.) diameter celestial globe] URANOGRAPHIA / SYDERUM ET STELLARUM / in Singulis Syderibus conspicuarum / exhibens Delineationem accuratissimam, / qua / ex Observationibus Astronomi plane Singularis / IOHANIS HEVELII...
RARE FIRST STATE OF THIS CELESTIAL TABLE GLOBE, 46 cm in diameter, produced by Gerard and Leonard Valk at the beginning of the 18th century. The globe comprises of t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1711
De la Sphère. . .
Scarce print of armillary sphere, surrounded by several diagrams of the sun, moon, and planets after Cassini. In lower part 9 blocks of text with explanations.Published b...
Place & Date: Paris, 1783
Sphaera Artificialium Typica repraesentatio.
Stunning engraving of terrestrial and celestial globes and armillary sphere, all with highly ornamented stands. Brief explanatory text. The plate was based on a design by...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1730
![[Board game] - La course autour du Monde.](/uploads/cache/48521-250x250.jpg)
[Board game] - La course autour du Monde.
Very rare French board game - no other copies known. The game consists of 50 fields linked to the lines of longitude. A globe lies in the center of the board to symboli...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1900
De la Sphere. Figure IX.
Appealing print of a armillary sphere.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706), a well travelled m...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
De la Sphere. Figure XI.
Appealing print of three armillary spheres.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706), a well travel...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Analytique des différentes positions de la Sphère, des différens systemes, des révolutions et des distances des Planètes, &c
Containing "Globe Celeste", "Sphere de Copernic", "Globe Terrestre", "Systeme de Ptolomee" ; including diagrams of the solar syste...
Place & Date: Paris, 1780
DE LA SPHERE. Figure III. 7
Appealing print focused on an armillary sphere. The latter is surmounted by a cartouche containing some angles in a circle.From the French text edition of Description d'U...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Boer-en Rooinekspel.
Design by E.G.Schlette. This is a board game similar to the famous "snakes and lessons". The game takes the players through various historical battles. Success ...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Koster, ca. 1890
![Phisique. [plate XL]](/uploads/cache/40124-250x250.jpg)
Phisique. [plate XL]
Some scientific instruments for measuring the sea temperature at some depth. From Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824.The French expedit...
- $40 / ≈ €37
Place & Date: Paris, 1824
Christianus Henricus Heineken . . .
Portrait of Carl Heinrich, Baron von Heineken, as a child, whole-length, standing on a room with books on the right, a skeleton, and a large globe on the left, wearing a ...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1724-1748
![Jules Verne. Le Tour du Monde en 80 jours. [Goose game board inspired by Jules Verne's novel Tour du Monde en 80 jours.]](/uploads/cache/44962-250x250.jpg)
Jules Verne. Le Tour du Monde en 80 jours. [Goose game board inspired by Jules Verne's novel Tour du Monde en 80 jours.]
This Goose game board is inspired by Jules Verne's novel whose boxes are illustrated with town views and figures and the center is occupied by a world map. Vignette illus...
- $1100 / ≈ €1029
Place & Date: Paris, 1876
![Tutte le strade conducono a Roma. [All roads lead to Rome]](/uploads/cache/44998-250x250.jpg)
Tutte le strade conducono a Roma. [All roads lead to Rome]
Game board of the game "All roads lead to Rome" from the Fascist era, offered by the chocolate or cocoa company Talmone-Unica. Showing a world map surrounded by...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: Turin, 1928
Equateur.
Appealing print centered on an armillary sphere. The latter sits atop a map of the world which clearly shows California as an island (in reverse!- the engraver must have ...
- $125 / ≈ €117
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1684
![[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].](/uploads/cache/38469-250x250.jpg)
[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].
Small, accurate lithographed map of Europe, embedded in a square playing grid formed by 100 cells.The 11 cells contain the profile of or a reference to Emperors, some cel...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: France, ca. 1850
![Fig. 2. [ print depicting three armillary spheres]](/uploads/cache/22626-250x250.jpg)
Fig. 2. [ print depicting three armillary spheres]
Appealing print depicting three armillary spheres.From the German text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706), a well...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1684
![[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].](/uploads/cache/38468-250x250.jpg)
[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].
Small, accurate lithographed maps of Europe, embedded in a square playing grid formed by 100 cells.The 11 cells contain the profile or a reference to an Emperors, some ce...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: France, ca. 1850
DE LA SPHERE. Figure XII.
A fine 17th century depiction of a floor globe with a turned wooden leg base, the globe displaying an enormous southern continent. Atop this is a wonderful miniature tabl...
- $125 / ≈ €117
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Sfera Armillare.
Charming engraving of a armillary globe from the rare atlas Atlante Tascabile o sia Serie di Num. XXI Cartine Geografiche nelle quali si rappresenta in ristretto lo Stato...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Rome, 1823
Globe Terrestre. / Globe Celeste.
Showing a terrestrial and celestial spheres. Left and right a box with geographical information for spheres of different types.Prepared by Louis Brion de la Tour and publ...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Paris 1790
Introduction a la géographie carte des diverses positions de la sphere..
A charming and large print showing a terrestrial, celestial and an armillary globe with smaller circular diagrams illustrating the theories of Ptolemy, Copernicus, Brahe ...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Paris 1750
![[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].](/uploads/cache/36911-250x250.jpg)
[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].
Small, accurate lithographed maps of Europe and Asia, embedded in a square playing grid formed by 100 cells.The 11 cells contain the profile of or a reference to a empero...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: France, ca. 1850
Peking. ( Pictorial map)
This pictorial map of this Game of the Goose, published at the time of the Boxer War, shows well the situation of Pei-Ho and Tientsin in relation to Peking. There are 42 ...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: France, ca.1901
![[Game of the goose] Nouveau Jeu des Singes.](/uploads/cache/48327-250x250.jpg)
[Game of the goose] Nouveau Jeu des Singes.
Game of 30 boxes, spiral, counter clockwise, showing apes and in the center apes enjoying a dinner. The example was made by "Imagerie d'Epinal" and in upper rig...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Epinal, ca.1900
Le Nom de Systeme..
Showing the solar systems according to Copernicus, Ptolomy, Ticho Brahé and a composition. In the center a armillary sphere on a decorative base.
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Paris, 1746
La Lune à un Mètre (Mini poster for Paris Exposition Universelle)
Original chromo-lithograph mini poster for "Paris Exposition Universelle" held between April and November, 1900, which received 50 million visitors. In 1899, ...
- $900 / ≈ €842
Place & Date: Paris, c.1900
![[Game of the goose] Jeu du Jardin Zoologique / Thiergarten Spiel.](/uploads/cache/48344-250x250.jpg)
[Game of the goose] Jeu du Jardin Zoologique / Thiergarten Spiel.
Goose board game. With boxes numbered from 1 to 25. The boxes illustrate different animals.Below the title and the game rules in letterpress in French and German.N° 71 ...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Wissembourg (Alsace), ca. 1870
![[Game of the goose] Het nieuw vermakelijk ganzenspel. Le nouveau jeu d'Oie.](/uploads/cache/48329-250x250.jpg)
[Game of the goose] Het nieuw vermakelijk ganzenspel. Le nouveau jeu d'Oie.
Game of 63 boxes, spiral, counter clockwise. Goose board game with spiral with 63 numbered squares. In different boxes a representation of a goose. In a box on the center...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Turnhout, ca.1850
![[Game of the goose] Het nieuw vermakelijk ganzenspel. Le nouveau jeu d'Oie.](/uploads/cache/48331-250x250.jpg)
[Game of the goose] Het nieuw vermakelijk ganzenspel. Le nouveau jeu d'Oie.
Game of 63 boxes, spiral, counter clockwise. Goose board game with spiral with 63 numbered squares. In different boxes a representation of a goose. In a box on the center...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Turnhout, ca.1900
![[Game of the goose] Nieuw vermakelijk Ganzenspel.](/uploads/cache/48338-250x250.jpg)
[Game of the goose] Nieuw vermakelijk Ganzenspel.
Goose board game. Oval with boxes numbered from 1 to 63. Every box shows an image of a person, a goose, a building or dice. In the middle a large oval with a goose. Child...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Weisenburg, ca.1910
![[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].](/uploads/cache/38463-250x250.jpg)
[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].
Small, accurate lithographed maps of Europe and Asia, embedded in a square playing grid formed by 100 cells.The 11 cells contain the profile of or a reference to an emper...
- $125 / ≈ €117
Place & Date: France, ca. 1850
Sfera Armillare.
Charming armillary sphere, from the rare atlas Atlante Tascabile o sia Serie di Num. XXI Cartine Geografiche nelle quali si ... In Roma MDCCCIV Si vende presso lo Stampat...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Rome, 1823
![[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].](/uploads/cache/38462-250x250.jpg)
[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].
Small, accurate lithographed maps of Europe and Asia, embedded in a square playing grid formed by 100 cells.The 11 cells contain the profile of or a reference to an emper...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: France, ca. 1850
![[Game of the goose] Het apenspel.](/uploads/cache/48333-250x250.jpg)
[Game of the goose] Het apenspel.
Game of 73 boxes, spiral, counter clockwise. Goose board game. Outside the board images of monkeys. More about game boards and goose games. [+]
- $120 / ≈ €112
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Senefelder, ca. 1890-1910
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
Giuoco dell' Oca. La tentazione
Uncommon Italian Game of the Goose in 90 boxes. The rules of the game are explained as follows: "REGOLA DEL GIUOCO: Questo giuoco è composto di 90 numeri e può ser...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Italy, ca. 1900
Il cacciatore - Giuoco Dilettevole.
Game of the Goose with 63 numbered boxes, rules in the lower margin. In this game, more players can play and a prismatic die is used with 14 numbers. Whoever goes to the ...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Milan, ca. 1900
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
Marine parallel rulers in brass.
Very fine marine parallel rulers in brass. The parallel ruler is the oldest and most traditional way to measure and trace routes and bearings. The principle is simple: t...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1880
Very fine brass astronomical equinoctial ring with two brass circles.
Very fine brass astronomical equinoctial ring with two brass circles with engraved foliage decoration, signed "Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas Delure A Paris", on the han...
Place & Date: Paris, undated, ca. 1690