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Astromer with a quadrant.
Text leaf with woodblock portrait of a scholar using a quadrant, from a French edition of Mer des Hiystoires , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Lyon, c.1491
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2010
![[Lot of 10 leaves] Catalogus doctorum…in Cosmographia Sebastiani…/ Index Cosmographicus.](/uploads/cache/48294-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 10 leaves] Catalogus doctorum…in Cosmographia Sebastiani…/ Index Cosmographicus.
Ten leaves with several wood blocks with index taken from the "Cosmographia". From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and ...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $3
Sold in 2022
Instrument geometrique dict la barque..
Early copper engraving by Amboise Bachot. He was the author of Le gouvernail lequel conduira le curieux de geometrie en perspective dedans l'architecture des fortificatio...
Place & Date: Paris 1598
Selling price: $300
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Barque de rassembler plusieurs termes pour parvenir..
Early copper engraving by Amboise Bachot. He was the author of Le gouvernail lequel conduira le curieux de geometrie en perspective dedans l'architecture des fortificatio...
Place & Date: Paris 1598
Selling price: $300
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Ambrosius Bachotus Parisiensis Inventor.
Early copper engraving by Amboise Bachot. He was the author of Le gouvernail lequel conduira le curieux de geometrie en perspective dedans l'architecture des fortificatio...
Place & Date: Paris 1598
Selling price: $300
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Compas Geometrique descrivant.. proposée P.AB Bachot.
Early copper engraving by Amboise Bachot. He was the author of Le gouvernail lequel conduira le curieux de geometrie en perspective dedans l'architecture des fortificatio...
Place & Date: 1598
Selling price: $300
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![Ventorum Index Figur des See-Compass... [on sheet with] Vocabulorum Geographicorum Topica Significatio...](/uploads/cache/85783-250x250.jpg)
Ventorum Index Figur des See-Compass... [on sheet with] Vocabulorum Geographicorum Topica Significatio...
A very unusual, striking engraving featuring a magnificent 32-point compass rose or wind rose, paired on the same page with a map of an invented coastline used to illu...
Place & Date: Köln, 1600
![[Celestial Gores.]](/uploads/cache/46376-250x250.jpg)
[Celestial Gores.]
A single engraved sheet of 12 small gores making up a 11,5 cm (4,5 inch) celestial globe, sheet size 190 x 365 mm, the diameter of globe is 116 mm. First gore with dedica...
Place & Date: Lyon, 1610
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2020
The only known, unmounted gores, from an extremely rare Dutch Globe.
These are the only known, surviving examples of loose gores from a 17-inch (44 cm.) diameter globe by Hondius and Jansson. Only four or five examples of the globe itself ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1623
Selling price: $6400
Sold in 2011
Praeterit hicce dies, nescitur origo secundi, an labor, an reqvies: sic transit fabula mundi.
A cut-out sundial prepared and signed by Jacobus ab Heiden.
Place & Date: Germany, ca. 1630
Selling price: $900
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Effigies Tychonis Brahe O.F. Aedificii et Instrumentorum Astronomicorum structoris. A°. Domini 1587, Aetatis Sue 40.
Showing Tycho Brahe in his observatory on the Danish island of Hven.From volume one of the great "Atlas Major" published by Joan Blaeu. This volume contained al...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2013
![[Engraved Gores for a pair of 20 cm diameter Globes.]](/uploads/cache/46379-250x250.jpg)
[Engraved Gores for a pair of 20 cm diameter Globes.]
Rare engraved globe gores for a pair of 20 cm (8 inch) diameter globes published in Nuremberg, and engraved by J.C. Weigel. Two sets of 12 globe gores on 4 sheets, togeth...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, ca 1675
Selling price: $2400
Sold in 2020
Des Colures - Von denen Coluren.
Appealing print of an armillary sphere.From the German text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706), a well travelled ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1684
Selling price: $77
Sold in 2022
Important early azimuth compass.
The gimballed and weighted brass compass bowl has a removable glazed cover, mounted with folding brass sight vanes, four unusually turned brass capstan posts to support d...
Place & Date: Dutch, c 1700
Selling price: $24000
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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.
Place & Date: Paris, 1719
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2011
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...
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1740
Selling price: $700
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Celestial globe 15 inch, only 3 other copys known.
Title below Cetus in a cartouche : Uranographia Caelum omne hic Complectens, Illa pro ut aucta et ad annum 1750 Completum MAGNO ab HEVELIO correcta est: ita, ejus ex Prot...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1750
Selling price: $55000
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![[ Lot of 9 celestial charts] . De l 'Aërologie / Sphère Droite / Sphère Paralléle / Figure de la Réfraction / Sphère oblique.](/uploads/cache/IMG_0773-250x250.jpg)
[ Lot of 9 celestial charts] . De l 'Aërologie / Sphère Droite / Sphère Paralléle / Figure de la Réfraction / Sphère oblique.
A chart depicting the nature and properties of the air. On both sides a description text. All within an elaborate and very decorative border. A very fine item.Claude ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1764
Introduction a la geographie carte des diverses positions..
A charming print showing a terrestrial, celestial and an armillary globe with smaller circular diagrams illustrating the theories of Ptolemy, Copernicus, Brahe and Descar...
Place & Date: Lyon 1771
Selling price: $1025
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![Globus Terrestris ad Sphaeram Obliquam Delineatus . . . [together with] Sphaera Armillaris / Instrumentum artificiale Orrery ab inventore appellatum . . .](/uploads/cache/38022-250x250.jpg)
Globus Terrestris ad Sphaeram Obliquam Delineatus . . . [together with] Sphaera Armillaris / Instrumentum artificiale Orrery ab inventore appellatum . . .
A beautiful matching set of two decorative prints of a Terrestrial and a Celestial pair of globes, together with an Armillary sphere and an Ornery. Globus Terrestris ad S...
Place & Date: Augsburg 1774
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2016
Sphaera Armillaris /.. Orrery (and) Globus Terrestris../ Globus Coelestis. . .
A beautiful matching set of two decorative prints of an Armillary sphere and an Orrery, plus a Terrestrial and a Celestial pair of globes. Along the bottom portion is a d...
Place & Date: Augsburg 1774
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2021
Sphaera Armillaris / Instrumentum artificiale Orrery ab inventore appellatum
Print showing two cartographic instruments: an armillary sphere and an instrument called Orrery by its inventor.Names of both in pennants above them. Descriptions of both...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1774
Vue Perspective de L'Entrée du Parc du Prince de Manheim en Allemagne.
A perspective view of the Royal Park in Manheim by Basset, a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in rue St.Jacques in Paris. In the eighteenth and ninetee...
Place & Date: Paris, 1780
Selling price: $3
Sold in 2023
Le Philosophe Democrite.
A copper engraving showing Democritus, sitting among ruins, the right hand placed on a globe, the left hand holding pair of compasses. Engraved by F.B. Lorieux after a pa...
Place & Date: Paris, 1786
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2021
Globo Terrestre Delineato sulle ultime osservazioni con i viaggi e nuove scoperte del Cap. Cook, inglese
One of four sheets that make up Cassini's terrestrial globe of 1790 which measured 34cm in diameter and delineated the tracks of all three of Captain Cook’s voyages, a...
Place & Date: Rome, 1790
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2023
![[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] 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
![[Untitled - Le Voyage Autour du Monde en 80 jours: d'apres le Romain de Jules Verne.]](/uploads/cache/48134-250x250.jpg)
[Untitled - Le Voyage Autour du Monde en 80 jours: d'apres le Romain de Jules Verne.]
This lovely children's games of the novel by Jules Verne game is without its illustrated box, six little hand-painted lead playing pieces (modeled on characters in the no...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1880
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2022
Le bœuf-gras. (Boardgame).
Rare boardgame named "The big game of the fat ox". The celebration of the fat ox was a central custom of the Paris Carnival, which was held at mid-Lent, a perio...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1880
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2022
![[Game of the goose] De wandelende Jood. (The Wandering Jew)](/uploads/cache/48340-250x250.jpg)
[Game of the goose] De wandelende Jood. (The Wandering Jew)
Goose board game based on the book "The Wandering Jew" by Eugene Sue. Oval with boxes numbered from 1 to 63. Every box shows an image of a Jewish person, a goo...
Place & Date: Metz, Gangel, 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,...
Place & Date: Switzerland, 1891
Championnat international de natation.
Uncut sheet for a game for kids " Championnat international de notation", showing images of swimmers donned in swimsuits representing their respective countri...
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Saussine, Paris, 1900
![[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
![[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
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
![[No titles. Two miniature terrestrial globes]](/uploads/cache/48149-250x250.jpg)
[No titles. Two miniature terrestrial globes]
A rather unique pair of small miniature terrestrial globes; one in French, one in English. Both are colored. The globe in French has its own metal stand, and the geograph...
Place & Date: Unknown ca 1900
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2022
![[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] Het nieuw vermakelijk ganzenspel. Le nouveau jeu d'Oie.](/uploads/cache/48330-250x250.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...
Place & Date: Turnhout, ca.1900
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2023
Giuoco Delle Frutta.
Unusual game of the Goose without numbered boxes but showing dices.More about game boards [+]
Place & Date: Italy, ca. 1900
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2021
![[Game of the goose] Tramway spel](/uploads/cache/48341-250x250.jpg)
[Game of the goose] Tramway spel
Goose board game. Oval with boxes numbered from 1 to 63. In the central box, under the title showing a Amsterdam horse drawn tram while serving as an advertisement for t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1880-1910
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2023
![[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
![[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
![[Game of the goose] Het zeer vermakelijk ganzenspel van d'Arke van Noë - Le nouveau jeu de l'oie de l'Arche de Noë.](/uploads/cache/48332-250x250.jpg)
[Game of the goose] Het zeer vermakelijk ganzenspel van d'Arke van Noë - Le nouveau jeu de l'oie de l'Arche de Noë.
Game of 63 boxes, spiral, counter clockwise. Goose board game with spiral with 63 numbered squares. This game, the squares of which are inspired by Ghent architecture, wa...
Place & Date: Gent, 1913
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2022
![[Goose game board] Giuoco del Barone.](/uploads/cache/48440-250x250.jpg)
[Goose game board] Giuoco del Barone.
An Italian Goose game of 76 squares. Printed by Adriano Salani.In the center "REGOLE DEL GIUOCO"T. Tira da tutti.P. Paga al Giuoco.V. Va al Num. indicato di ogn...
Place & Date: Florence, ca. 1930
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2022
![[Goose game board] Giuoco dell'Oca.](/uploads/cache/48587-250x250.jpg)
[Goose game board] Giuoco dell'Oca.
An Italian Goose game prepared by Adriano Salani. The board is made up of 63 squares, arranged in a counterclockwise spiral. In the corners, amusing scenes: above, a man ...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Florence, ca. 1930
This is a Map of Speed Gibson's Adventures.
A rare map showing the (Oriental) Adventures of Speed Gibson. Speed Gibson of the International Secret Police was a radio series written by Virginia Cooke. It centres on ...
Place & Date: America, ca 1937
A unique 78 inches (2 meters) diameter relief globe shows the physical features under the oceans.
This unique relief globe with a diameter of 2 meters (78.7 inches) and an overall height, including a frame, of 235 cm (92.5 inches) shows the physical features under the...
Place & Date: Sydney, 1972, 2012
Selling price: $8000
Sold in 2022
Liberto. Tailors to the World.
A large poster extolling the virtues of Liberto clothing - jeans particularly. A young man is seen kneeling, holding the world (in the form of a globe) on his shoulders. ...
Place & Date: Europe, ca 1970s