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Sexta Etas Mudi. Folio CCLV. (With portret of Johannes Müller alias Regiomontanus holding a Astrolabe.
A very fine presentation of the astronomer Johannes Müller alias Regiomontanus holding a Astrolabe. A village-scene (Dim. H : 150 mm W : 223 mm) is depicted on the lower...
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
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...
Date: Nuremberg 1640
Tweevoudigh onderwiis van de Hemelsche en Aerdsche Globen; Het een Na de meyning van Ptolemeus met een vasten Aerdkloot...
Tweevoudigh onderwiis van de Hemelsche en Aerdsche Globen; Het een Na de meyning van Ptolemeus met een vasten Aerdkloot; Het ander Na de Natuerlijcke stelling van N. Cope...
Date: Amsterdam, 1655
Montaigne de Ca.
In the foreground, a couple of which the man is holding a quadrant with a verse in two languages underneath the picture.The poet and topographer from Comothau, Daniel Mei...
- $85 / ≈ €73
Date: Frankfurt, 1623-1678
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...
Date: Paris, 1683
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...
Date: Paris, 1683
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 / ≈ €130
Date: Paris, 1683
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 / ≈ €108
Date: Paris, 1683
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 addition to this curious feature,...
- $200 / ≈ €173
Date: Paris, 1683
DE LA SPHERE. Figure II.
Appealing print depicting an armillary sphere.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706), a well tra...
- $150 / ≈ €130
Date: Paris, 1683
DE LA SPHERE. Figure III.
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...
- $200 / ≈ €173
Date: Paris, 1683
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...
- $150 / ≈ €130
Date: Paris, 1683
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 / ≈ €108
Date: Frankfurt, 1684
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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 / ≈ €130
Date: Frankfurt, 1684
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...
Date: Paris, undated, ca. 1690
Allegory of geography.
Two putty studying a terrestrial globe, one of them holding a pair of dividers. The information on the globe is clearly imaginary but the two cartouches and ships are typ...
Date: Bruges, ca. 1700
![Jean De Sacro Busto. [Johannes de Sacro Bosco]](/uploads/cache/39090-250x250.jpg)
Jean De Sacro Busto. [Johannes de Sacro Bosco]
Portrait of Johannes de Sacro Bosco c. 1195 – c. 1256), a scholar, monk and astronomer who was a teacher at the University of Paris. He wrote a short astronomy textbook...
- $150 / ≈ €130
Date: France, ca. 1700
Nocturlabe in boxwood and brass.
Nocturlabe in boxwood and brass, the wheels maintained by a central nut presenting an annual calendar divided into months and days, an hour disc and a mobile alidade, the...
Date: England, ca. 1700
Wooden Nocturnal in boxwood and brass.
This exceptional nocturnal is made of boxwood and brass, the wheels maintained by a central nut, presents an annual calendar divided into months and days, an hour disc,...
Date: England, Thomas Cooper, dated 1701
A very rare Louis XIV celestial globe by Guillaume De L'Isle, Paris, 1700, with his first address "Rue des Canettes".
Decorated with constellation figures, backgrounds in green, constellation figures hightened in red and pale colors, metal axis, brass meridian circle, graduated on one fa...
- $25000 / ≈ €21593
Date: Paris, 1701
Horizon ring for globe.
Printed horizon ring for a 28cm diameter German globe. The ring is divided in quarters and engraved two by two on one copper plate. The size of the paper is 44 x 33cm. Th...
Date: Nuremberg, 1704/1705
![[A magnificent 18 inch. (46 cm.) diameter celestial globe] URANOGRAPHIA / SYDERUM ET STELLARUM / in Singulis Syderibus conspicuarum / exhibens Delineationem accuratissimam,](/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,
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...
Date: Amsterdam, 1711
Globe Terrestre. / Globe Celeste.
A very decorative depiction of a terrestrial and celestial globe on a decorative base. The page is filled with seven diagrams.
- $175 / ≈ €151
Date: Paris, 1719
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...
Date: Augsburg, 1730
Sphaerarum Artificialium Typica Repraesentatio. . .
Johann Baptist Homann born in Kammlach (1663). He was engraver, map-seller and geographer to the Kaiser of the Holy Roman Empire (1715). He also was member of the Prussia...
- $1300 / ≈ €1123
Date: Nuremberg 1740
Sphaerarum Artificialium Typica Repraesentatio. . .
Stunning engraving of Homann's terrestrial and celestial globes and armillary sphere, all with highly ornamented stands. Brief explanatory text.Johann Baptist Homann born...
Date: Nuremberg, 1740
Globe Terrestre Didié et Présénté a Monseigneur le Comté Maubec de Brancas...
A rare terrestrial globe dated 1741. Complete title "Globe Terrestre Didié et Présénté a Monseigneur le Comté Maubec de Brancas Par Jacque Hardy. Dres...
Date: Paris, dated 1741
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 / ≈ €86
Date: Paris, 1746
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 ...
Date: Nuremberg, 1724-1748
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 / ≈ €864
Date: Paris 1750
A ship's hour glass.
Maritime hourglass with blown glass bulbs, orange sand, junction ring covered with cord, the circular ebony frame with six turned baluster columns. The invention of the ...
Date: Germany, ca. 1750
A ship's hour glass.
Maritime hourglass with blown glass bulbs, orange sand, junction ring covered with cord, the circular ebony frame with six turned baluster columns.The invention of the ho...
Date: The Netherlands, Germany, ca. 1750
RESTORED CROSSTAFF SEGMENT
RESTORED CROSSTAFF SEGMENT, Dutch, 1757, signed “I*v*K” for Johannes van Keulen, dated “1757” and numbered “23.” The staff is made of ebony, 11/16” (18 mm)...
Date: Amsterdam, 1757
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...
Date: English, ca. 1750-1760
Steel compass with a gilded radiating pattern.
Steel compass with a gilded radiating pattern.Provenance : Collection Henri-Claude Randier.
Date: ca. 1760
A folding fan showing a nautical festival, ca. 1770.
Folded fan, painted in gouache a ship pulled by two horses. On board, a large company, among others joins them while fishermen watch the scene.Reverse painted with an exo...
- $1500 / ≈ €1296
Date: France, ca. 1770
GLOBUS TERRESTRIS ad sphaeram obliquam delineatus. and the GLOBUS COELESTIS cum Astrodictico artificiali iunctus.
A very handsome, large copper engraving of a pair of globes. Ribbon style titles and German text panel at bottom.
Date: Augsburg, 1774
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...
Date: Paris, 1780
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...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1780
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...
Date: Paris, 1783
Mariner’s compass
Inverted compass called "snitch" in wood painted in imitation of tortoiseshell and brass, signed "Ing MANN Maker Water Street Liverpool".
Date: Liverpool, ca. 1785
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 / ≈ €345
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...
Date: ca. 1790
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...
Date: Paris, 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...
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...
Date: ca. 1800
Sphere (No title)
Rare Italian print of a sphere. Paper size 350x225mm. From his "Atlante della geografia antica e moderna".
- $120 / ≈ €104
Date: Milan, 1807
Nouveau jeu des théatres de Melpomene, Momus et Thalie.
Game board with 63 numbered pictorial compartments, each showing an actor or actress in role, lettered with his or her name, the name of the character, the play and the t...
- $1100 / ≈ €950
Date: Paris, ca. 1810
The Royal Game of British Sovereigns Exhibiting the Most Remarkable Events in Each Reign From Egbert to George III,
Engraved goose game with 53 illustrations culminating in a view of Napoleon on the Bellerophon, four further spandrel vignettes, and a central oval filled with title and ...
- $900 / ≈ €777
Date: London, ca. 1817
Cary's New Terrestrial Globe Exhibiting The Tracks and Discoveries made by Captain Cook; Als...
An early Regency 21-inch terrestrial globe CARY, John and William. - Cary's New Terrestrial Globe Exhibiting The Tracks and Discoveries made by Captain Cook; Also those o...
Date: London, 1815/1818
Very fine folding fan with painting of Minerva, Juno and 2 peacocks.
Small folding fan made of double skin sheet, mounted in English style, painted with gouache and depicting Minerva and Juno sitting near each other and receiving the visit...
Date: ca. 1820
Jeu Royal de la vie d'Henri IV.
Large sheet with an animated Goose-game of 63 numbered squares, spiral, counterclockwise, centripetal focused on the French king Henri IV.André Basset offers the life of...
Date: Paris, ca. 1816-1820
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 / ≈ €69
Date: Rome, 1823
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 / ≈ €173
Date: Rome, 1823
![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 / ≈ €35
Date: Paris, 1824
Systémes Planétaires
A charming print showing an armillary globe with smaller circular diagrams illustrating the theories of Ptolemy, Copernicus, Brahe, etc. Published by Alexandre Emile Lapi...
- $150 / ≈ €130
Date: Paris, 1830
![[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 / ≈ €86
Date: France, ca. 1850
![[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].](/uploads/cache/37573-250x250.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...
- $125 / ≈ €108
Date: France, ca. 1850
![[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 / ≈ €86
Date: France, ca. 1850
![[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 / ≈ €86
Date: France, ca. 1850
![[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].](/uploads/cache/38460-250x250.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...
- $125 / ≈ €108
Date: France, ca. 1850
![[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].](/uploads/cache/38466-250x250.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...
- $125 / ≈ €108
Date: France, ca. 1850
![[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 / ≈ €86
Date: France, ca. 1850
![[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 / ≈ €108
Date: France, ca. 1850
![[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].](/uploads/cache/38464-250x250.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...
- $125 / ≈ €108
Date: France, ca. 1850
![[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].](/uploads/cache/38470-250x250.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...
- $110 / ≈ €95
Date: France, ca. 1850
![[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 / ≈ €130
Date: Turnhout, ca.1850
Country pleasures.
Folding fan made of a double sheet of lithographed paper, enhanced with gouache and watercolor, with a decoration of three cartouches with gallant scenes of French countr...
Date: France, ca. 1850-1860
A fan combines views of Hong Kong (right), Canton (left), China, ca 1850-1860.
The fan shows nice images of Hong Kong and Canton on onside and on verso a garden with 39 characters welcoming a rider on his white horse. Their clothes are heightened in...
Date: China, ca. 1850-1860
![[Macaire] Pensionnat Robert-Macaire. Mr le professeur. . . (Plate 4)](/uploads/cache/17390-250x250.jpg)
[Macaire] Pensionnat Robert-Macaire. Mr le professeur. . . (Plate 4)
Macaire personified the clever businessman, who was willing at any time to throw moral and ethical principles overboard for a quick buck. His personality fitted exactly t...
Date: Paris, 1864
NEWTON'S New and Improved TERRESTRIAL GLOBE Accurately delineated from the observations of the most esteemed NAVIGATORS AND TRAVELLERS to the Present Time. . .
A very impressive Victorian 20-inch Library globe is showing the "Gulf of Corea."On an exceptionally carved mahogany tripod stand with scrolling acanthus legs t...
Date: London, January 1, 1867
![[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 / ≈ €130
Date: Wissembourg (Alsace), ca. 1870
![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 / ≈ €950
Date: Paris, 1876
![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/44919-250x250.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.]
Goose game board inspired by Jules Verne's novel, whose boxes are illustrated with color lithographs and the center occupied by a world map. Vignette illustrations number...
Date: Paris, ca. 1880
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...
Date: Paris, ca. 1880
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...
Date: Paris, ca. 1885
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 / ≈ €518
Date: Amsterdam, Koster, ca. 1890
![[Voyage en Suisse / Reise die Schweiz.]](/uploads/cache/48396-250x250.jpg)
[Voyage en Suisse / Reise die Schweiz.]
A first edition children's folding board game of Switzerland and its many places and sights to visit. Although it is missing most of its original components (dice, cards,...
Date: Switzerland, 1891
Compass.
A sloop compass in the original wooden box with lit. The compass with floating rose (Cardan system). Slung in gimbals, the east point is decorated and graduated in half ...
Date: c. 1890-1900
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 ...
Date: Milan, ca. 1900