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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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![[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