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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.
Date: Lyon, c.1491
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2010
![[Lot of 10 leaves] Catalogus doctorum…in Cosmographia Sebastiani…/ Index Cosmographicus.](/uploads/cache/48294-500x500.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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Date: 1598
Selling price: $300
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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.
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...
Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2013
![[ Lot of 9 celestial charts] . De l 'Aërologie / Sphère Droite / Sphère Paralléle / Figure de la Réfraction / Sphère oblique.](/uploads/cache/IMG_0773-500x500.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 ...
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...
Date: Lyon 1771
Selling price: $1025
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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...
Date: Augsburg, 1774
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...
Date: Paris, 1786
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2021
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 / ≈ €828
Date: Paris, c.1900