Browse Listings in Celestials
Sphères..
Rare print of an armillary sphere, which is basically a skeletal celestial sphere with a model of the Earth or, later, of the Sun placed in the center. It is useful as a ...
Place & Date: Paris 1750
Selling price: $145
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Planisphaerium Coeleste.
This decorative and rare, boldly-engraved double hemisphere map illustrates north and south polar hemispheres, with smaller circular diagrams showing the Ptolemaic, Tycho...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1750
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2017
Planisphaerium Coeleste.
A very decorative double hemisphere celestial chart, centered on the North and South Poles, with smaller circular diagrams illustrating the theories of Tycho, Ptolemy, La...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1750
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2010
Planisphaerium Coeleste.
A very decorative double hemisphere celestial chart, centered on the North and South Poles, with smaller circular diagrams illustrating the theories of Tycho, Ptolemy, La...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1750
Selling price: $3000
Sold in 2013
Planisphaerum coeleste.
A very decorative double hemisphere celestial chart. The smaller circular diagram showing the rotation of the Planets, according to Tycho Brahe, Ptolemy and Copernicus. F...
Place & Date: Nurenberg, 1750
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2019
Planisphaerium Coeleste.
A very decorative double hemisphere celestial chart, centered on the North and South Poles, with smaller circular diagrams illustrating the theories of Tycho, Ptolemy, La...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1750
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2021
Le globe celeste.
Scarce small celestial chart in double hemispheres based on cartography of Guillaume Delisle (. Published in "Nouveau traité de geographie par M**** ", publish...
Place & Date: Paris, 1752
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2021
Système de Copernic de Ticho Brahe, etde Decartes.
Four models of the earth, sun and planets, based upon Ptolemy, Copernicus, Tycho Brahe and Descartes. Published in "Nouveau traité de geographie par M**** ", p...
Place & Date: Paris, 1752
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2017
Le Globe Celeste.
Scarce decorative double hemisphere celestial map, based on the cartography of De L’Isle. Published in “Nouveau Traite de Geography”. The map exhibits the constella...
Place & Date: Paris, 1752
Selling price: $135
Sold in 2020
Schematismus Geographiae Mathematicae. . .
A charming print showing a celestial and an armillary globe and circular diagrams illustrating the theories of Copernicus and Brahe. Compass-card, two wall maps of Asia a...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1753
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2011
Schematismus Geographiae Mathematicae. . .
The uncommon Homann Heirs chart of the Solar System features 23 diagrams including spheres, earth, celestial globes, planetary systems, temperature zones, and projection ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1753
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2017
TABULA ANEMOGRAPHICA SEU PYXIS NAUTICA VULGO COMPASS CHARTE
Rare engraved wind chart showing the compass disc divided in 32 sections, with text in six languages (German, Dutch, Italian, Latin, French and Spanish). Surrounding th...
Place & Date: Augsburg, c. 1755
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2008
Tabula Anemographica seu Pyxis Nautica...
Tabula Anemographica seu Pyxis Nautica, vulgo Compass Charte. Rare engraved wind chart showing the compass disc divided in 32 sections, with text in six languages (German...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1755
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2014
De L'Aerologie.
A decorative map showing four celestial models. Left and right boxes with geographical information about aerology,refraction and twilight.Prepared by de Mornas, who was a...
Place & Date: Paris, 1756
Selling price: $13
Sold in 2017
Geographie Modern Historique et Politique.
A set of five globes featuring Zones, Longitude, Antiodes, Climates and Latitude. It has the explanations outlined in the right and left boxes. Prepared by de Mornas, wh...
Place & Date: Paris, 1756
Selling price: $12
Sold in 2017
Planisphere celeste meridional..
Beautiful celestial chart of the southern skies by the well-known French astronomer, Philippe de La Hire. Updated by N. de Fer, published by Desnos. Several non-Ptolemaic...
Place & Date: Paris 1760
Selling price: $900
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Ephemerides en figures conformes aux ephemerides..
Uncommon chart of an eclipse of the Sun, Mercurius, Venus, Mars in the years of 1751 and 1752. The schedule was prepared by l'Abbé André Brancas-Villeneuve a French cos...
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1760
Selling price: $190
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Systema solare et Planetarium..
One of J.G.Doppelmayer's celestial charts, appearing in Homann's Atlas Coelestis.It depicts the system of Copernicus with the orbits of the planets and the twelve constel...
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1760
Selling price: $2100
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Kalendrium Juliano Romanum Perpetuum.
Perpetual calendar, based on the circulation of the planets. Such calendars were pricked on the wall and thus were destroyed easily. An example can be found on Vermeer’...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1760
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2015
Planisphaerium Coeleste.
A hihgly decorative double hemisphere celestial chart, centered on the North and South Poles, with seven smaller circular diagrams illustrating the theories of Tycho, Pto...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1730-1760
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2016
Systema solare et Planetarium..
One of J.G.Doppelmayr's celestial charts, appearing in Homann's Atlas Coelestis.It depicts the system of Copernicus with the orbits of the planets and the twelve constell...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1760
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2023
De la Longitude et de la Latitude. / Suite de la Longitude.
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, L.C. Desnos, 1761
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
A celestial chart depicting the astronomical systems according to Ptolemy and to Tycho Brahe.
A celestial chart depicting the astronomical systems according to Ptolemy and to Tycho Brahe. Claude Buy de Mornas (dl 1783), géographe du roi (1764). Atlas 'Méthodique...
Place & Date: Paris, 1761
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2020
De l'Aërologie.
Decorative chart showing various celestial models.Left and right a box with geographical information about the Aero logy, Refraction, and Twilight.Prepared by Buy de Morn...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $100
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La Manière de reconnoitre kes Principales Etoiles dans le Ciel.
Decorative chart of the Milky Way and positions of the stars in the Sky. Left and right a box with geographical information about the welkin .Prepared by Buy de Mornas, w...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $100
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Globe Céleste.
Attractive engraved celestial globe, oriented to show Leo, Taurus, Virgo, Ursa Major and Minor, Cancer and a handful of other constellations.Left and right a box with geo...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $120
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Des Planètes.
Interesting engraving showing contemporary instruments for charting the heavens and implementation of the instruments to observe the stars.Left and right a box with infor...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $65
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Des Planètes subalternes et de la Paralaxe.
Decorative engraving showing the phases of the moon.Left and right a box with geographical information about various planets .Prepared by Buy de Mornas, who was a profess...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $65
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Des Planètes en Particulier.
Chart of the solar system.Left and right a box with geographical information about various planets: "Mercury, Venus, La Terre, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn.Prepared by Buy ...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $100
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Du Zodiaque et de l'Eclyptique.
Decorative celestial chart showing the solar and lunar eclipses.Left and right a box with information about the zodiac and the ecliptic.Prepared by Buy de Mornas, who was...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $40
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Colures, Tropiques, Cercles Polaires, et leurs Usages.
Decorative chart showing the main celestial circles.Left and right a box with information about colures as well as tropical and polar circles.Prepared by Buy de Mornas, w...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $53
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De l'Horison.
Decorative chart representing the right, oblique and parallel sphere.Left and right a box with information about the horizon.Prepared by Buy de Mornas, who was a professo...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $40
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Pôles du Monde, de l'Eclyptique, et de l'Horison. Points des..
Decorative map presenting a compass rose and a wind rose.Left and right a box with information about the cardinal points, the poles as well as the equinoctial and the sol...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $40
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Sistême de Descartes.
Decorative celestial map representing the solar system as conceived by Descartes.Left and right a box with information about the philosopher's ideas about the outer space...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $63
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Sistême de Copernic.
Decorative celestial map representing the solar system as conceived by Copernicus.Left and right a box with information about the philosopher's ideas about the outer spac...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $35
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Centre du Monde. Systêmes de Ptolomée et de Ticho-Brahé.
Decorative celestial map representing the conception of the universe according to Ptolomaeus and Ticho-Brahé.Left and right a box with information about both systems.Pre...
Place & Date: Paris, 1762
Selling price: $85
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Introduction à la Géographie.
Decorative chart representing the celestial sphere.Left and right a box containing an introduction to geography.Prepared by Buy de Mornas, who was a professor of geograph...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $60
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Explication des Saisons.
Decorative celestial chart representing the Earth's revolution around the sun.Left and right a box with information explaining the phenomenon of the seasons.Prepared by B...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $30
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Hemisphaerium Boreale - Hemisphaerium Australe.
Handsome miniature celestial chart depicting the mythological form of the constellations in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Two ecliptic diagrams are tucked betwee...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1762
Selling price: $90
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Du Méridien et de l'Équateur.
Decorative chart of one hemisphere divided into meridians and showing the main celestial circles with the equator colored in red.Left and right a box with information abo...
Place & Date: Paris, 1762
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2011