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Géographie Moderne, Historique et Politique (Lot of 2 prints)
Two decorative celestial chart showing the systems according to Ptolemy, Tycho Brahe, Copernicus and Descartes. The second print is entitled "Démonstrations géomé...
Place & Date: Paris, 1762
Selling price: $105
Sold in 2015
![[ Lot of 6 world and thematic maps ] Climats d'Heures et de Mois.](/uploads/cache/IMG_0772-250x250.jpg)
[ Lot of 6 world and thematic maps ] Climats d'Heures et de Mois.
A map of the Ancient World with the climate circles. On both sides a description text. All within an elaborate and very decorative border. A very fine item.Claude Buy...
Place & Date: Paris, 1762
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2023
Passage de l' Ombre de la Lune au travers de l' Europe? 1er Avril 1764. / Fases de l' Eclipse telles qu'on les obsevera a Paris.
A highly uncommon map of Europe in sepia printing with superposed in black printing the track of the solar eclips of the 1st of April 1764.Calculated and engraved entirel...
Place & Date: Paris, 1764
Selling price: $1500
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![Hèmisphère Celeste Antarctique ou Austral. . . [together with] Hèmisphère Celeste Antarctique ou Septentrional. . .](/uploads/cache/34119-250x250.jpg)
Hèmisphère Celeste Antarctique ou Austral. . . [together with] Hèmisphère Celeste Antarctique ou Septentrional. . .
Map printed in two colors, black for the stars, red for the constellation figures.Uncommon set of large-scale celestial charts of the southern and northern hemispheres ca...
Place & Date: Paris, Delamarche, after 1764
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2014
![De la Geologie. Du Zodiaque et du L' Eclyptique, Explication des Saisons. [Lot of 3 maps]](/uploads/cache/IMG_0104-250x250.jpg)
De la Geologie. Du Zodiaque et du L' Eclyptique, Explication des Saisons. [Lot of 3 maps]
Claude Buy de Mornas (d. 1783), géographe du roi (1764). Atlas Méthodique et Elémentaire de Géographie et d' Histoire, 1761, Atlas Historique et Géographique, 1762. ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1762-1764
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2023
Systêmes de Ptolémée-Copernic- Descartes- Tycho Brahé.
Louis Brion de la Tour (1756-1823), ' Atlas Géneral, Civil et Ecclésiastique', 1766, ' Atlas Général', 1790-98. Louis Charles Desnos (fl.1750-70), Le Rouge's 'Atlas N...
Place & Date: Paris, 1766
Selling price: $85
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Globes Terrestre / Céleste
A set of a terrestrial and a celestial globe, from the ' Atlas Géneral, Civil et Ecclésiastique'.Louis Brion de la Tour (1756-1823), ' Atlas Géneral, Civil et Ecclési...
Place & Date: Paris, 1766
Selling price: $97
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Systêmes de Ptolémée-Copernic- Descartes- Tycho Brahé.
A celestial print from the Atlas Général, Civil et Ecclésiastique with 4 different solar systems. Chart is printed within a decorative border.
Place & Date: Paris 1766
Selling price: $90
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The Terms and Principles of Geography with Their Astrological Connections.
An interesting set of 4 images on one sheet, including an armillary sphere, a model of the solar system, geographical circles, and a model of the various geographical fea...
Place & Date: London, 1770
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2019
Figure du Passage de la Penombre de la Lune. . .
An interesting map showing the solar eclipse of April 1764 by Scattalglia in Paris in 1770.
Place & Date: Paris, 1770
Selling price: $7
Sold in 2020
To Count Cyrillus de Rasumowsky...
Very rare copper-engraved celestial chart on hand-laid paper! We could not trace any other example or reference to it. Shows many prominent star constellations. Below wit...
Place & Date: ca. 1770
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2022
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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Tensho kanki sho.
Japanese rotating star map. Diameter of the rotatable star map 109mm. Horizon circle 77mm. 24pp."Tensho kanki sho", which means "Brief explanation of astro...
Place & Date: Edo, (Anei 3), 1774
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2013
“An Analemma Shewing by Inspection the Time of Sun Rising and Sun Setting, the Lengths of Days and Nights, Beginning and End of Twilight and the Point of the Compass on which the Sun Rises and Sets, for every Five Degrees of Latitude and for every five De
An interesting engraving of an 'ANALEMMA', a "pedestal of a sundial", Showing the time of sun rising and sun setting, the lengths of days and nights the beginni...
Place & Date: London, 1774
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2017
The Principal Fixed Stars of the South Hemisphere Delineated on the Plane of the Equator.
An interesting celestial chart of thirty principal fixed stars for the year 1774. The table on the left gives the variations and declinations for future years. Includes t...
Place & Date: London, 1774
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2018
![Planisphere celeste Septentrional. . . [together with] Planisphere celeste Meridinale. . .](/uploads/cache/22228-250x250.jpg)
Planisphere celeste Septentrional. . . [together with] Planisphere celeste Meridinale. . .
A pair of celestial charts depicting the constellations of the Northern and Southern hemispheres. Designed by Gabriel Philllipe de la Hire (1640-1719). The center point o...
Place & Date: Paris, 1775
Selling price: $2400
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Planisferio Celeste Meridionale tagliato sull Equatore.
Celestial chart, showing the observatories in Paris, Kassel, Greenwich, Copenhagen. The southern skies. Engraved by G.Zuliani after G. Pitteri. A beautiful celestial char...
Place & Date: Venice 1777
Selling price: $345
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Planisferio Celeste Settentrionale tagliato sull Equatore.
Celestial chart, showing the observatories in Paris, Kassel, Greenwich, Copenhagen. The southern skies. Engraved by G.Zuliani after G. Pitteri.The chart has in lower part...
Place & Date: Venice 1777
Selling price: $345
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![Planisferio Celeste Meridionale tagliato sull Equatore. [together with] Planisferio Celeste Settentrionale tagliato sull Equatore.](/uploads/cache/28674-250x250.jpg)
Planisferio Celeste Meridionale tagliato sull Equatore. [together with] Planisferio Celeste Settentrionale tagliato sull Equatore.
Pair of attractive engravings of celestial planispheres with the constellations shown in their allegorical guises.Celestial chart, showing the observatories in Paris, Kas...
Place & Date: Venice, 1777
Selling price: $2250
Sold in 2013
Planisferio Celeste Meridionale tagliato sull Equatore.
Celestial chart, showing the observatories in Paris, Kassel, Greenwich, Copenhagen. The southern skies. Engraved by G.Zuliani after G. Pitteri. A beautiful celestial char...
Place & Date: Venice, 1777
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2013
Tavola Sferica.
Depicting chart with three spheres showing the rotation of the earth and its relation to the zodiac. With very large comass rose showing the direction of Mediterranean wi...
Place & Date: Venice, 1777
Selling price: $59
Sold in 2016
Vorstellung einer Gegend des gestirnten Himmels vom Nordwest nach Nordost.
An unusual engraved celestial chart of the constellations of the Northern skies. Includes Ursa Major (Great Bear), Leo, Lynx, Dragon, Camel, Hercules, etc. Shows the Nort...
Place & Date: Germany, c1777
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2013
Posizione diversa degliabitanti della terra.
Attractive Italian illustration describing 5 astronomical spheres and a compass rose. From ?Atlante Novissimo.? Attractive and finely engraved.
Place & Date: Venice 1779
Selling price: $150
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Tavola Sferica.
Attractive Italian astronomical chart with 5 spheres showing Latitudes and Longitudes, with 8 smaller spheres depicting the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars & Venus. From &qu...
Place & Date: Venice, 1779
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2013
Tavola Cosmografica .I. Mappa dell' Universo e de due pui celebri sistemi planetarj..
Double-hemispheres, celestial projections from the northern and southern hemispheres. Drawn by Castellan, embellished by Pittori and engraved by Zuliani. Blank on verso.F...
Place & Date: Venice 1779
Selling price: $200
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Posizione Diversa Deglia Abitanti Della Terra.
This decorative print explains the different regions of the earth, divided by lines of longitude and latitude, and into its tropical, temperate and polar regions. From Za...
Place & Date: Venice, 1779
Selling price: $46
Sold in 2023
Planisphaerium Coeleste. Verlegt von I.M.Probst.
Scarce and very handsome celestial chart showing the constellations in allegorical form. Published by the lesser known brother Johann Michael Probst.Tucked between the cu...
Place & Date: Augsburg 1780
Selling price: $250
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Altare
Uncommon celestial print showing the constellation of Altar, engraved by Johann Christoph Berndt and published by Johann Philipp Andreae (1700-1757).Published in the 'Mer...
Place & Date: Nuremberg c.1780
Selling price: $160
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La Sphère Artificielle ou Armilaire Oblique.
Decorative copper plate showing armillary Sphere, two spheres according to Copernicus and Ptolemy and two diagrams.Sphere on a decorative stand.
Place & Date: Paris c. 1780
Selling price: $250
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Demonstrations Geometriques, des Spheres Droite, Paralelle, et Oblique.
Louis Brion de la Tour (1756-1823), ' Atlas Géneral, Civil et Ecclésiastique', 1766, ' Atlas Général', 1790-98. Louis Charles Desnos (fl.1750-70).A celestial print fr...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1780
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2013
La Sphere Artificielle Ou Armilaire Oblique, elevée sur l'Horizon à la Latitude de Paris.
An attractive scientific plate with a large armillary sphere and is surrounded by two hemisphere maps - the Western showing the Americas with an island California and par...
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1781
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2020
De la Boussole ou Rose des Vents / Des Phases de la Lune. / Des Eclipses de Soleil. / Des Eclipse de Lune. / Du Crépuscule. / De l'Atmosphère.
A compass-rose, surrounded by 5 solar systems published by Monhare for his Atlas Général a l'usage des colleges et maisons d'education..
Place & Date: Paris 1783
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2019
Sphère de Ptolomée.. Rose de Boussole..
The Ptolemaic, parallel and right spheres are represented in the left hand side while in the right hand side are a compass rose and a wind rose.From theAtlas moderne ou c...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1783
Selling price: $18
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Représentation du Globe céleste En deux Plans Hémisphères Coupés par l'Ecliptique.
Armillary Sphere prepared by J.B.Nolin and published by Monhare for his Atlas Général a l'usage des colleges et maisons d'education.. Louis Joseph Mondhare was active i...
Place & Date: Paris, 1783
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2008
![[Celestial chart] Sphere de Ptolomée / Rose de boussole . . .](/uploads/cache/42835-250x250.jpg)
[Celestial chart] Sphere de Ptolomée / Rose de boussole . . .
Celestial chart with a Ptolemy sphere and a compass card.Prepared by Le Sieur Janvier, Jean Denis [Robert], French geographer and cartographer.In addition to work publish...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1783
Selling price: $17
Sold in 2019
SYSTEME DE COPERNIC ou Abrege de l'Astronomie.
This is one of several decorative terrestrial and celestial engravings published in Paris, entitled 'System of Copernicus', presenting various astronomical and geographic...
Place & Date: Paris, 1783
Selling price: $32
Sold in 2021
Du Zodiaque et de L'Eclyptique / Eclypse de Soleil / Eclypse de Lune.
A chart depicting the eclipse of the sun and moon with descriptive text on both sides. By De Mornas. Claude Buy de Mornas (d. 1783), was Géographe du roi (1764). He prod...
Place & Date: Paris, 1786
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2019
Colures, Tropiques, cercles Polaires, et Leurs Usages.
A chart depicting the tropics of cancer and capricorn, and the north and south poles with descriptive text on both sides. By De Mornas.Claude Buy de Mornas (d. 1783), was...
Place & Date: Paris, 1786
Selling price: $17
Sold in 2019
Reduction de la grande Carte de la Lune de J. Dom. Cassini.
The reduction of Cassini IV's reissue of his great-grandfather's rare and "elegant" lunar map. Jean-Dominique Cassini, known as Cassini IV (1748-1845), was born...
Place & Date: Paris, 1788
Selling price: $2400
Sold in 2019
Constellations in the Northern & Southern Hemispheres
This exceptional, detailed, double hemisphere celestial map was engraved by C. Cooke. The northern and southern hemispheres are filled with hand colored figures depicting...
Place & Date: London, 1789
Selling price: $121
Sold in 2016