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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
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
![Itroductio. [with sphere.]](/uploads/cache/23702-250x250.jpg)
Itroductio. [with sphere.]
Introduction leaf from a Latin text edition of Atlas Major
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2014
![Gründlicher Bericht Von dem biß in den Februar. dieses 1665sten Jahrs am Himmel gestandenen importirlichen Cometen . . . [together with] Appendix vom neuen Cometen und dessen vermuthlichen Bedeutung. . .](/uploads/cache/34120-250x250.jpg)
Gründlicher Bericht Von dem biß in den Februar. dieses 1665sten Jahrs am Himmel gestandenen importirlichen Cometen . . . [together with] Appendix vom neuen Cometen und dessen vermuthlichen Bedeutung. . .
Christophori Nottnagels Mathem. Prof. Publ. zu Wittenberg/ Gründlicher Bericht/ Von dem biß in den Februar. dieses 1665sten Jahrs/ am Himmel gestandenen importirlichen ...
Place & Date: Wittenberg, Henckel, 1665
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2015
![[Rare double hemisphere celestial chart]](/uploads/cache/41404-250x250.jpg)
[Rare double hemisphere celestial chart]
Rare double hemisphere celestial chart, published by Jollain in 1667. Published in "Trésor Des Cartes Geographiques Des Principaux Estats de Lunivers".This atl...
Place & Date: Paris, 1667
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2023
![[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
Planisphaerium Coeleste
An exceptionally decorative, oversized, very rare celestial chart, produced by Frederik de Wit around 1680, and depicts the two hemispheres surrounded by six supplementar...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1680
Selling price: $1850
Sold in 2017
De la Sphere.
Alain Manneson Mallet (1603-1706) published in 1683 his 'Description de l' Univers' in 5 volumes. In 1686 a German edition appeared.A chart from Alain Manesson Mallet's '...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $90
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Planisphere des Constellations Meridionalles. Figure XXXV.
A fine celestial chart depicting the southern constellations in allegorical form.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By Allain Mann...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $38
Sold in 2022
Planisphere des Constellations Septentrionalles. Figure XXXIII.
A fine celestial map depicting the northern constellations in allegorical form.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By Allain Mannes...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $160
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De la sphere (pair of maps).
Pair of small charts each with the constellations in allegorical form featuring the northern and southern sky.
Place & Date: Paris 1685
Selling price: $250
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Planisfero del Globo Celeste artico Antartico..
Decorative double hemisphere chart. Text in Italian below image. From Rossi's Mercurio Geografico. Finely engraved by Mariotti, very decorative double hemisphere celestia...
Place & Date: Rome, 1687
Selling price: $1750
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Planisfero del Globo Celeste artico Antartico..
Decorative double hemisphere chart. Text in Italian below image. From Rossi's Mercurio Geografico. Finely engraved by Mariotti, very decorative double hemisphere celestia...
Place & Date: Rome 1687
Selling price: $2500
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Planisfero del Globo Celeste artico Antartico. . .
Decorative double hemisphere chart. Text in Italian below image. From Rossi's Mercurio Geografico. Finely engraved by Mariotti, very decorative double hemisphere celestia...
Place & Date: Rome, 1687
Selling price: $3000
Sold in 2012
Planisfero del Globo Celeste Artico Antartico. . .
Decorative double hemisphere chart. Text in Italian below image. From Rossi's Mercurio Geografico. Finely engraved by Vin. Mariotti, very decorative double hemisphere c...
Place & Date: Rome, 1687
Selling price: $1750
Sold in 2014
Planisfero del Globo Celeste artico Antartico..
Decorative double hemisphere chart. Text in Italian below image. From Rossi's Mercurio Geografico. Finely engraved by Mariotti, very decorative double hemisphere celestia...
Place & Date: Rome, 1687
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2015
![[ Earth among the stars ]](/uploads/cache/30313-250x250.jpg)
[ Earth among the stars ]
Charming oval wood block map of the Christian vision on the place of earth among the stars, by the Italian XVIth and XVIIth century writer, humanist and cartographer Gius...
Place & Date: Bologna, 1592 - 1688
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2011
Nieuwe Hemels spiegel waer door den hemel, aerde en zee dadelik kan afgemeten werden Noyt gesien.
A rare version of the celestial chart by Andreas van Luchtenburg (active 1664 - ±1706) showing the north equatorial pole down to 40 degrees S dec. In a polar equidistant...
Place & Date: Rotterdam, c.1688
Selling price: $3000
Sold in 2013
Cometa Anno MDCLXXX e LXXXI observ. Friderico Madeweis Berolini..
A finely engraved map of a Comet observed in 1680 by Frederico Madeweis Barolini.
Place & Date: Germany 1690
Selling price: $325
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Tabula Anemographica seu Pyxis Nautica Ventorum nomina sex linguis representans.
From the Hornius edition of the Ancient Atlas by Janssonius. No text on verso. hemispherical engraved diagram of the winds surrounded by numerous windheads, central compa...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1690
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2011
Sterre Kaert of Hemels Pleyn . . .
Early imprint, usually offered with the imprint of Elwe. A most attractive rectangular projection of the Heavens showing all the heavenly bodies and with panels of astrol...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1690
Selling price: $1650
Sold in 2022
Correspondance du Globe Terrestre a la sphère Celeste . . .
Two terrestrial spheres with explanatory notes, by Nicolas de Fer. From his rare "Petit et Nouveau Atlas". The first edition was published in 1697 and was repub...
Place & Date: Paris, 1692
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2019