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Tabula Anemogra Phica seu Pyxis Nautica Ventorum Nomina Sex Linguis Repraesentans
One of the earliest wind rose charts to appear in the 17th century. This unusual chart represents the evolution from the wind rose to the compass rose. Early mariners nam...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2017
Planisfere du Globe Celeste.
A scarce celestial double hemisphere, showing the constellations. With portraits of T.Brahe and F.Houtman and four putties in the corners with surveyors instruments.The p...
Place & Date: Paris, 1650
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2020
Den Cirulen der Planeten nauch ihrem lauff und Hoehe.
An attractive celestial chart showing the courses of the planets according the system of Tycho Brahe. Embellished with two portraits (one of Tycho Brahe) and two title-ca...
Place & Date: Germany, 1651
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2018
Speculum Solis künststandiger Leichter und Gründrichtiger Bericht
This beautiful engraving is a horological diagram with at bottom a 32-point wind rose and signed underneath "M:Franciscus Ritter N fac A° 1640".Remarkable for...
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1653
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2023
Haemisphaeria sphaerarum rectae et oblique utriusque motus..
A celestial chart depicting the location of the planets and stars according to ecliptic co-ordination and celestial-equator co-ordination. Two planispheres in lower corne...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1660
Selling price: $950
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Soliscirca orbem terrarum spiralis revolutio.
A most decorative, uncommon chart, showing the Eastern Hemisphere in the centre, including part of Australia and Japan and with the equatorial circle, the tropical circle...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1660
Selling price: $3100
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Typus aspectuum, oppositionum et conjunctionum..
A celestial chart with a circular projection map of the earth, centred in the North Pole, concentrating upon the opposition and conjunction of the planets. With two diagr...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1660
Selling price: $1470
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Coeli Stellati Christiani Haemisphaerium Posterius.
Rare first issue. This spectacular celestial chart presents the constellations according to Christian symbolism. The view of the constellations is based on the work of th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Selling price: $4200
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Haemisphaerium Stellatum Australe Cum Aequali Sphaerarum Proportione.
The very rare first edition, first state of this spectacular celestial chart showing the constellation of the southern hemisphere superimposed upon a globe depicting Amer...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J.Janssonius, 1661
Selling price: $3300
Sold in 2014
Hemisphaerii Borealis Coeli et Terrae Sphaeri Cascenographia.
Andreas Cellarius (active from 1656-1702), Dutch mathematician and geographer, rector of the Latin School at Hoorn. He may have been of German or Polish origin, with the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1661
Selling price: $2800
Sold in 2016