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![T'ien wên t'u [A Map of the Stars]](/uploads/cache/35921-250x250.jpg)
T'ien wên t'u [A Map of the Stars]
The chart was engraved on stone in 1247 by Wang Zhiyuan, but it is based upon an earlier drawing by Huang Shang, made c. 1190-1193 at the beginning of Shaoxi in the South...
Place & Date: China, c.1890-1910, but engraved in 1247
Selling price: $30000
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![De opere sexte diei. Foliu V. [a Christian-Aristotelian view of the cosmos]](/uploads/cache/24508-250x250.jpg)
De opere sexte diei. Foliu V. [a Christian-Aristotelian view of the cosmos]
A very fine representation of Adam's creation (Dim. H : 225 mm W : 222 mm). According to the Bible God created all of the land animals on the sixth day of creation.On ver...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $2750
Sold in 2013
Leaf from De Sphaera.
A leaf from Joannes de Sacrobosco's De Sphaera, illustrated with astronomical figures in wood block.Born at the end from XIIe century, Joannes de Sacrobosco studied in Ox...
Place & Date: Vitteberg, 1538
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2009
Imaginesconstellationum Australium / Imagines constellationum Boreallum.
An important pair of woodblock celestial charts of the northern and southern skies showing the "stars as seen from earth" (Warner). The maps were first publishe...
Place & Date: Basle, 1541 / 1551
Selling price: $3100
Sold in 2020
![Facies astrolabij particularis I - IX. [Nine sheets]](/uploads/cache/21692-250x250.jpg)
Facies astrolabij particularis I - IX. [Nine sheets]
An extremely rare set of nine sheets to be meant as book illustrations. Each of them showing the different parts for the construction of an astrolabe. The map of the worl...
Place & Date: Germany ca. 1600
Selling price: $4250
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Untitled - Celestial Chart
This, scarce tiny celestial map presents the northern and southern skies with mythological representations of the constellations set in a cloud background. After the deat...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1602
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2008
De Sphaera Caelesti.
A bold strapwork border surrounds this charming miniature map of the heavens with the major constellations delineated. This tiny map is based on the celestial map from Or...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2019
Eigentliche verzeichnus dieses im Jahr 1618.
Although very little is known about Caspar Hersbach, we do know that this broadside celestial chart was made to announce the appearance of a comet in 1618. The comet is i...
Place & Date: Cologne 1618
Selling price: $1100
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N°4. Horologium Horizontale ubi axis mundanus supra horizontem extollitur grandus XLVIIII. Scrupula XXIIII.
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...
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1640
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2020
Tabula ANEMOGRAPHICA seu Pyxis Nautica Ventorum nomina sex linguis representans.
Impressive compass rose with a fleur de lis at the center and 32 wind directions flowing from it identified in six languages, Greek, Latin, French, Dutch, Italian, and Sp...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $1550
Sold in 2014