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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...
Date: Frankfurt, 1623-1678
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.
Date: Paris, 1719
Sphere (No title)
Rare Italian print of a sphere. Paper size 350x225mm. From his "Atlante della geografia antica e moderna".
Date: Milan, 1807
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...
Date: Paris, 1830
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
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
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
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. . .
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
Astronomy. Figures 26 & 29. Plates LXV & LXV.
A lovely pair of copperplate astronomical plates displaying "The Principal fixed Stars in the North Hemisphere [and the South Hemisphere] Delineated on the Plane of ...
Date: London, 1792
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 remarkabl...
Date: Nuremberg 1640
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
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
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 / ≈ €171
Date: Paris, 1683
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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 / ≈ €128
Date: France, ca. 1700
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[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
