Browse Listings in Celestials
Sphére Armillaire.
Armillary sphere.
Place & Date: Paris 1790
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2009
Das Planeten-System der Sonne wie es seit dem Jahr 1781 bekannt geworden.
An important and rare celestial chart of the solar system that includes Uranus, which was discovered by Sir Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel. Bode was the first to map its orbi...
Place & Date: Berlin, ca 1790
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2018
Stereographischer Entwurf des Gestirnten Himmels vom Nordpol bis zum 38sten Grad südlicher Abweichung.
A very large graphic celestial chart depicting the North equatorial pole. Filled with stars and constellations. Bode produced several highly important celestial works. En...
Place & Date: Berlin, ca 1790
Selling price: $105
Sold in 2018
[Lot of 2 prints] TABLEAU ANALYTIQUE des différentes positions de la Sphère, des diff'rents systèmes, des révolutions et des distances des Planètes, &c.
Attractive set of two prints with a celestial and a terrestial globe, two spheres demonstrating the celestial systems of Ptolemy and Copernicus and several other diag...
Place & Date: Pris, c. 1790
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2023
Sterre Kaert of Hemels Pleyn, waer door met kan wete hoe laet dat het is over de gehele aertkloot op alle meridiane...
A large and unusual Dutch celestial chart. It shows the constellations of both the northern and southern hemispheres on a single rectangular projection.With twelve new co...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1792
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2016
Sterre Kaert of Hemels Pleyn. . .
A fantastic 18th century copper engraved map. This large and unusual Dutch celestial chart shows the constellations of both the northern and southern hemispheres on a sin...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1792
Selling price: $510
Sold in 2018
Sterre kaert of hemels pleyn, waer door men kan wete hoe laet dat het is over de gehele aertkloot, op alle meridiane en polus hoogte . . .
A most attractive Mercator style oblong projection of the entire night sky showing all the heavenly bodies of the northern and southern skies, and with panels of astrolog...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1792
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2020
Astronomy - Northern & Southern Hemispheres with the figures of the Constellations.
[Plates LXXXV & LXXXVI] A nice pair of copperplate engravings published by Andrew Bell, a Scottish engraver and printer, who co-founded Encyclopedia Britannica with C...
Place & Date: Edinburgh, ca 1792
Selling price: $36
Sold in 2020
Astronomy. Figures 26 & 29. Plates LXV & LXV.
A lovely pair of copperplate astronomical plates displaying "The Principal fixed Stars in the North Hemisphere [and the South Hemisphere] Delineated on the Plane of ...
Place & Date: London, 1792
Selling price: $12
Sold in 2021
Planches de l'origine de tous les cultes, du citoyen dupuis, avec leur explication.
Original edition. Atlas volume of the four volume work "Origine de tous les cultes" with a fine engraved title page after Ducoudray and engraved by Pauquet.Illu...
Place & Date: Paris, Agasse, An III, 1795
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2015
[No Title] A pair of celestial gores.
Two hand colored engraved gores: one showing the northern hemisphere (sheet nine with Hercules), and the southern hemisphere (sheet nine with Serpent and Scorpion. These ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1693 but ca. 1800
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2020
Lynx, Telescopium Herschelii, Auriga.
Bode's influental "Uranographia" was on of the greatest achievements in the Golden Age of celestial cartography. This charts shows many stars and nebulaes but m...
Place & Date: BERLIN, 1801
Selling price: $1200
Sold
Ursa Major; Leo Minor.
This celestial chart shows the Big Dipper, which makes the Bear's hindquarters and tail. Below Ursa Major is Leo Minor, the Smaller Lion. With numerous stars and informat...
Place & Date: BERLIN, 1801
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2012
Ursa Major Constellation (Big Dipper)
A rare and extraordinary 1801 Johann Elbert Bode elephant folio celestial, constellation, or star map of Ursa Major (the Great Bear or Big Dipper) and Leo Minor. Consider...
Place & Date: Berlin, 1801
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2020
Pisces constellation
A rare and extraordinary 1801 Johann Elbert Bode elephant folio celestial, constellation, or star map of Pisces.Considered the largest and most dramatic celestial maps of...
Place & Date: Berlin, 1801
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2020
Cellestial Companion or projects in plano of the Starry..
Complete title: Celestial companion or projections in plano of the Starry heavens simple, original and useful: Accompanied by observations, explanatory of their use and a...
Place & Date: Islington 1803
Selling price: $1650
Sold
Tableau Analytique des Differentes Positions de la Sphere
A fine, large chart by Charles Francois Delamarche (1740-1817) that explains the different theories of the solar system, according to Copernicus, Tycho Brahe and Ptolemy....
Place & Date: Paris, 1804
Selling price: $215
Sold in 2016
System de Copernic ou Abrege de l'Astrononie.
A large detailed chart of Copernicus' theory of the solar system surrounded with descriptive panels of French text. The outermost planet is noted as Herschel, the first p...
Place & Date: Paris, 1804
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2017
La Sphère Artificielle, ou Armilaire Oblique.
Decorative print showing a celestial hemisphere, surrounded by projections of Brahe, Copernicus and Ptolemy, from Atlas moderne portatif composé de vingt-huit cartes sur...
Place & Date: Paris, Prudhomme, Levrault, Debray, 1806
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018
Démonstration de quelques effets du Soleil et de la Lune, et des principaux objets de l'Aréologie.
Representation of lunar phases, eclipses and other phenomenons, with explanatory text in the lower half of the engraving.From Atlas de la Géographie de toutes les partie...
Place & Date: Paris, Prudhomme, Levrault, Debray, 1806
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2013
Division Astronomique du Globe Terrestre en Cercles, Zones, Climats..
Representation of several spheres illustrating the climatic areas, parallels, meridians etc.From Atlas de la Géographie de toutes les parties du monde .. Ouvrage destinÃ...
Place & Date: Paris, Prudhomme, Levrault, Debray, 1806
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2013
Hemisphere Austral
Striking and highly detailed copper engraved chart showing the constellations located in the Austral Hemisphere. The engraving is the same as Flamsteed's.
Place & Date: Paris, 1814
Selling price: $38
Sold in 2015
Planisferio Celeste..
Decorative large-scale hemisphere celestial chart, with a diameter 603mm., calculated for the year 1800. With descriptive key to zodiac signs in German, French and Italia...
Place & Date: Milan, c.1822
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2009
Celestial Map of the Constellations in the Northern & Southern Hemispheres (2 Maps).
A finely engraved pair of celestial charts after Alexander Jamieson. Jamieson based much of this work from that of Johann Elert Bode (1747–1826), who was director of th...
Place & Date: London, 1822
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2020
Jamieson Celestial chart plate 24, first edition.
Plate 24 Eridanus, Orion, Lepus, Columba, Cela Sculptoris, Psalterium Georgii, Sceptrum Brandenburgium.From Alexander Jamieson’s Celestial Atlas which appeared in Febru...
Place & Date: London, 1822
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2019
Delphinus, Equuleus and Pegasus.
An exquisite hand colored engraving from the first American celestial atlas. Jacob Green's 1824 work, “Astronomical Recreations; or, Sketches of the Relative Position a...
Place & Date: Philadelphia, 1824
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2017
Tableau Analytique des Différens..
The illustrated globes and spheres are similar to the ones sold by Delamarche. Also depicting Sun, Moon and several positions. Engraved by Pelicier.
Place & Date: Paris, 1825
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2013
DENDERHA (TENTYRIS) Zodiaque Sculpte Au Plafond De L'Une Des Salles Superieures Du Grand Temple.
Zodiac ceiling from the Grand Temple at Denderah, from Description de l'Égypte Antiquités, vol. 4.Engraved by Louis Jean Allais in 1826. Prosper Jollois and Edouard Dev...
Place & Date: Paris, 1826
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2018
Systemes Planetaires.
A pleasing example of E. Lapie's 1829 chart of the planetary solar systems. This beautifully engraved chart consists of eleven astronomically themed elements including a ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1829
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2017
Sistemi Del Mondo.
A detailed engraving of the Solar Systems Armillary Sphere. This unusual celestial chart features ten systems and comes from "Kuvorno Tipographia di Glauco Masi"...
Place & Date: Rome, 1833
Selling price: $27
Sold in 2019
(2 charts) Northern Circumpolar Map for each Month in the Year & Southern Circumpolar Map for each Month . . .
Scarce pair of celestial charts from Elijah H. Burritt’s famous "Atlas Designed to Illustrate the Geography of the Heavens" published by F. J. Huntington &...
Place & Date: Hartford, 1835
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2014
Planispheres Celestes.
A striking celestial chart in the form of two spheres showing the position and courses of the planets in the northern and southern hemispheres. Includes the Ecliptic, the...
Place & Date: Paris, 1836
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2021
Révolution annuelle de la Terre autour du Soleil. . .
Large spectacular chart tracking the 12 monthly phases of the earth's orbit around the sun and showing the relative projections of sunlight, with two smaller diagrams. Co...
Place & Date: Paris, 1837
Selling price: $66
Sold in 2013
Tableau du Systeme Solaire.
An interesting celestial chart showing the movement of the planets including a comet's trajectory within its solar system.
Place & Date: Paris, 1838
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2013
Systeme Planetaire.
Several diagrams showing planetary relationships. Prepared by J. Andriveau-Goujon and included in his "Atlas Elémentaire simplifié".
Place & Date: Paris, E.Soulier, 1838
Selling price: $81
Sold in 2012
Uranographie.
Finely engraved Uranography plate with an armillary sphere in the center. Uranography is the branch of astronomy concerned with mapping the stars, galaxies, or other cele...
Place & Date: Paris, Jules Renouard, ca.1840
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2011
Set of six S.D.U.K celestial charts.
The complete set of six sequentially numbered steel engraved celestial charts, designed by W Clarke after W Newton, and engraved by John & Charles Walker; Published b...
Place & Date: London, 1844
Selling price: $460
Sold in 2020
Pair of 2 maps: CARTE CELESTE... & CARTE CELESTE MUETTE. . .
Very rare pair of large celestial charts, illustrating several hundreds of stars. Indicating the sizes of the stars, and names also constellations. Diameters of the globe...
Place & Date: Geneva, 1850
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2013
Der Nördliche Gestirnte Himmel Dargestellt von Dr. Frdn. Reuter.
Extremely rare celestial chart of the northern sky. Printed on four sheets. Stars are shown at five different magnitudes as explained in the legend. The stars of the grea...
Place & Date: Gotha, ca. 1850
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2017
Les Etoiles Fixes divisees en Constallations Boreales et Australes. . .
A highly detailed double hemisphere chart of the northern and southern skies, showing the various constellations, as catalogued by Sir Francis Baily, along with a third c...
Place & Date: Paris, 1850
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2019