Browse Listings in Celestials
(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
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
Planisphaerium Coeleste.
Magnificent double hemisphere celestial chart showing the northern and southern sky with constellations in allegorical form derived from Hevelius.A diagram in the upper l...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1730
[Set of two sheets] Costellationi celesti del polo Antartico .... Costellationi celesti del polo Artico ...
Decorative set of calottes for the North and South Polar Celestial Hemisphere by Vincenzo Maria Coronelli. The two polar caps belong to the edition of the celestial globe...
- $3000 / ≈ €2807
Place & Date: Venice, 1692
AIR France - Réseau Aérien Mondial.
Original pictorial lithograph advertising planisphere poster from AIR France. The poster has a black background. In the lower right below the border '016/P/AF Printed in ...
Place & Date: Imprimerie Perceval, Paris, ca. 1950
Planisphere celeste Septentrional. . . [together with] Planisphere celeste meridional. . .
Beautiful set of celestial charts of the northern and southern skies by the well-known French astronomer, Philippe de La Hire. Surrounded by panels of astronomical notes ...
- $3000 / ≈ €2807
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1775
Carte Astronomique de L'Univers.
A large and decorative, informative chart illustrating and describing the Solar System, backed by the stars, printed in blue and black, surrounded by further 17 vignette ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1875
Hemisphaerium Coeli Australe in quo Fixarum. . .
Magnificent celestial chart drawn by the famous scientist Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr.Large circular charts of the southern hemisphere constellation, with decorative vignet...
- $1800 / ≈ €1684
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1747
AIR France [Planisphère Air France Zodiac].
A double-hemisphere celestial map with the constellations of the zodiac in gold and the others in turquoise, set against a sky of navy blue, both with the major stars mar...
- $2200 / ≈ €2059
Place & Date: Imprimerie Perceval, Paris, 1953
La Lune à un Mètre [Mini poster for Paris Exposition Universelle)
Original lithograph poster for "Paris Exposition Universelle" held between April and November, 1900, which received 50 million visitors. In 1899, director Geor...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1900