Browse Listings in Celestials
![Planisfero settentrionale [&] meridionale corretto ed accresciuto di molte stelle.](/uploads/cache/83941-250x250.jpg)
Planisfero settentrionale [&] meridionale corretto ed accresciuto di molte stelle.
Set of decorative celestial charts of the northern and southern constellations by V.M. Coronelli. - 2 sheets. colored in full. Couple of copper engravings, engraved in t...
Place & Date: Venice, ca. 1692
Selling price: $1350
Sold in 2020
![Onderwysing van't Gebruyk des Hemels Pleyn Waar op de starren des hemels na 't oogh in 't plat gestelt zyn[.] Tot nut en vermaak van alle liefhebbers der wiskonsten.](/uploads/cache/34517-250x250.jpg)
Onderwysing van't Gebruyk des Hemels Pleyn Waar op de starren des hemels na 't oogh in 't plat gestelt zyn[.] Tot nut en vermaak van alle liefhebbers der wiskonsten.
Large engraved celestial chart with a rotating printed paper ring (volvelle or rete) on an off-centre axis to indicate the part of the sky visible at any date and time an...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Johannis van Keulen, c.1680-1696
Selling price: $30000
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Comet Melcher Anno 1680 and 1681 beobachtet worden.
Handsomely engraved chart of the 'Great Comet of 1680' showing it's movements though the heavens. Details its relative location for approximately 50 days as it moved thro...
Place & Date: Würtzburg, 1696
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2015
Plani-Spherium Coeleste.
Scarce miniature double celestial chart, from the rare atlas " El atlas abreviado, o compendiosa geografia del mundo antiguo, y nuevo. . ." by Francesco de Affe...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Jan Duren, 1698
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2017
![Ragioni di Copernico. . . [9 charts on one sheet]](/uploads/cache/85319-250x250.jpg)
Ragioni di Copernico. . . [9 charts on one sheet]
The nine diagrams illustrate the various concepts that were debated in the 17th century. Each one with a title banner. Published in "Atlante Veneto".
Place & Date: Venice, 1698
Selling price: $385
Sold in 2021
Globe celeste Coeli en arrant Gloriam dei.
Double hemispherial celestial showing signs of the zodiac.
Place & Date: Paris 1700
Selling price: $407
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Veritable Representation des Premieres Matieres ou Elements avec leurs Directions. . .
A very rare double-page engraved circular representation of the world depicted in circular layers with Hell at its core, consisting of 9 concentric circles including the ...
Place & Date: Haarlem, 1650 - 1700
Selling price: $22000
Sold in 2014
Planisfero Settentrionale Corretto, et Accreciuto . . .(together with) Planisfero Meridionale, Corretto, et Accrescuito . . .
Set of two decorative celestial charts of the Northern skies and southern skies.From Coronelli's "Corso Geographico". The constellations and the brightest stars...
Place & Date: Venice, 1700
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2017
Planisfero Settentrionale Corretto, et Accreciuto di Molt..A
Decorative celestial chart of the Northern skies. The remarkable Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718), was a Franciscan Friar and appointed General of the Order in 1701. He was...
Place & Date: Venice, 1700
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2020
Planisfero Meridionale Corretto, et Accreciuto di Molt..
Decorative celestial chart of the Southern skies.The remarkable Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718), was a Franciscan Friar and appointed General of the Order in 1701. He was ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1700
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2020
Planisferii Celesti, Calcolati Per L'Anno MDCC, Corretti, Et Aumenati Di Molte Stelle . . .
Double hemisphere celestial map showing a new and more scientific depiction of the heavens. In original colors, it is very unusual to find Coronelli maps in original colo...
Place & Date: Venice, 1700
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2020
Idea dell'Universo.
A set of diagrams relating to astronomy and astrology, with wind head borders. The subjects include a perpetual calendar, the zodiac, the parts of the body dominated by e...
Place & Date: Venice, c. 1700
Selling price: $1250
Sold in 2019
Primi Elementi, o introductione al Corso Geografico..
An introduction to geography, with a double hemisphere, spheres of longitude and latitude and distance tables, showing equator, climate zones, etc. Several smaller diagra...
Place & Date: Venice, 1700
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2020
Phasis Lunae in orbem insinuatae Crescentis, observata Segedini Anno MDCXCVI Die 9. Julii st. N. hor.i. a Oocc.
Two moon projections on one sheet according to J. Hevelius.
Place & Date: ca. 1700
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2020
Idea dell'Universo.
A set of diagrams relating to astronomy and astrology, with wind head borders. The subjects include a perpetual calendar, the zodiac, the parts of the body dominated by e...
Place & Date: Venice, c. 1700
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2021
Planisphérès Celeste . Par Mr. De la Hire..
Decorative double hemisphere celestial chart, centred on the north and south poles. The constellation figures are derived from the prototypes in Bayer's Uranometria and t...
Place & Date: Paris 1702
Selling price: $520
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Planispheres Celeste . Par Mr. De la Hire..
Decorative double hemisphere celestial chart, centred on the north and south poles. The constellation figures are derived from the prototypes in Bayer's Uranometria and t...
Place & Date: Paris 1705
Selling price: $710
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Planispheres Celeste . Par Mr. De la Hire..
Decorative double hemisphere celestial chart, centered on the north and south poles. The constellation figures are derived from the prototypes in Bayer's Uranometria and ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1705
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2011
Planisphere Celeste Meridionale (and) Planisphere Celeste Septentrional
Two separate charts of southern and northern Hemisphere according to Philippe de la Hire (1640-1714). Hemisphere with surround of text and engraved dedication to Jean Pau...
Place & Date: Paris, 1705
Selling price: $2900
Sold in 2008
PLANISPHAERII COELESTIS HEMISPHAERIUM SEPTENTRIONALE?
A rare chart of the Northern skies, published in Allard's Atlas Coelestis. A visually striking example of this scarce and important map, in a first state. Later the chart...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1706
Selling price: $1550
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Nouvelle carte de la sphere pour faire connoitre les diver mouvemens des planetes et leurs diverses revolutions..
A rare print showing an armillary globe with smaller circular diagrams illustrating the theories of Ptolemy, Copernicus, Brahe and Descartes.The tables along the sides id...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1706
Selling price: $600
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Nouvelle carte de la sphere pour faire connoitre les diver mouvemens des planetes et leurs diverses revolutions..
A rare print showing an armillary globe with smaller circular diagrams illustrating the theories of Ptolemy, Copernicus, Brahe and Descartes.The tables along the sides id...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1706
Selling price: $2200
Sold in 2013
Haemisphaerium stellatum boreale cum subiecto ..
Spectacular star chart showing the constellation of the southern hemisphere superimposed upon a globe depicting America with California as an island with a rounded coastl...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1708
Selling price: $2425
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Planisphaerium Ptolemaicum, sive Machina..
This celestial chart shows Ptolemy's theory of celestial system. Circling around the earth are shown the sun, the moon and the five planets then known, impersonalized by ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1708
Selling price: $1825
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Harmonia macrocosmica seu Atlas universalis et novus, totius universi creati cosmographiam generalem et novam exhibens.
Although little is known about the life of Andreas Cellarius (born around 1596), his work Atlas Coelestis, seu Harmonia Macrocosmica is well known among collectors of cel...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1708
Selling price: $30750
Sold in 2015
Planisphaerium Arateum Sive Compages Orbium Mundanorum ex Hypothesis, Aratea in Plano Expressa.
Beautiful celestial chart by Cellarius, published by Schenk & Valk. Based on the theories of the 3rd century Greek astronomer, Aratus, in which the Earth is at the ce...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1708
Selling price: $1050
Sold in 2014
Theoria Solis per eccentricum sine epicyclo.
A fine and decorative celestial chart, from the Valk & Schenk edition of Cellarius.This chart is from the "Harmonia Macrocosmica seu Atlas Universalis et Novus&q...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1708
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2020
Haemisphaerium stellatum australe antiquum.
Splendid chart showing the constellation of the southern hemisphere. Andreas Cellarius (active from 1656-1702), Dutch mathematician and geographer, rector of the Latin Sc...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1708
Selling price: $1590
Sold in 2018
Typus Selenographicus Lunæ Phases et Aspectus Varios Adumbrans.
Celestial chart showing a selenographic diagram depicting the varying phases of the Moon. More about Celestial charts and globes [+]
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1708
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2016
Orbium Planetarum Terram Complectentium Scenographia.
The planetary orbits encompassing the Earth. Showing the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn all orbiting the Earth. In between the Earth and Mercury is the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1708
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2016
Corporum Coelestium Magnitudines.
A chart indicating distances in the heavens, using the diameter of the earth as the unit of measuring. This chart is richly adorned with elaborate cartouches and baroque ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1708
Selling price: $1150
Sold in 2021
![Creatio Universi... [Genesis]](/uploads/cache/91539-250x250.jpg)
Creatio Universi... [Genesis]
An attractive and skillful engraving of the creation of the universe, the earth surrounded by planetary orbits, by Tigur Melchior Fuesslinus who flourished as an engraver...
Place & Date: Augsburg, c.1710
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2010
![Globus Coelestis in quo omnes Alterismi. . . [twelve engraved gores for a 20cm diameter celestial globe.]](/uploads/cache/34190-250x250.jpg)
Globus Coelestis in quo omnes Alterismi. . . [twelve engraved gores for a 20cm diameter celestial globe.]
Very Rare. Twelve engraved globe gores for a 20cm diameter celestial globe. There is a magnitude table above Phoenix to the left of the title cartouche, which is labelled...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, ca.1710
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2014
(Two globes, Paris observatory, Neptune. . .)
Decorative print showing a terrestrial globe and armillary sphere, surveying instruments, Neptune and an observatory in the back ground.Probably by Nicolas de Fer.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1710
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2015
Nouvelle Carte de la Sphere pour Faire Connoitre les Divers...
A scarce and fascinating engraving showing two great depictions of the Copernican solar system on either side of an armillary sphere with four small maps (Western and Eas...
Place & Date: Paris, 1710
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2017
Celestial globe 15 inch (only 3 other copys known.)
Title below Cetus in a cartouche : Uranographia Caelum omne hic Complectens, Illa pro ut aucta et ad annum 1700 Completum MAGNO ab HEVELIO correcta est: ita, ejus ex Prot...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1711
Selling price: $18000
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Tabula Selenographica..Hevelii quam Riccioli..
An uncommon, extremely decorative chart of the surface of the moon divided in hemispheres, from the famous "Atlas Coelestis" of Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr. Doppe...
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1702-1714
Selling price: $700
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"Le Systeme de Ptolomée.. / de Copernic. / de Descartes. / Ticho Brahe."
Four decorative print on one sheet showing the systems of Ptolemy, Copernicus, Descartes and Brahe. Engraved by H. van Loon..
Place & Date: Paris 1717
Selling price: $205
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Le Systeme de Ptolomée.. / de Copernic. / de Descartes. / Ticho Brahe.
Four decorative print on one sheet showing the systems of Ptolemy, Copernicus, Descartes and Brahe. Engraved by H. van Loon..
Place & Date: Paris, 1717
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2011
Systema Ptolomaicum/Systema Copernicanum / Systema Tychonicum/Systema Cartesianum.
Four inset maps, each depicting one of the theories of the Solar System. Each system is enclosed in engraved clouds and stars.Part of a title page from his atlas Atlas me...
Place & Date: Nüremberg, 1719
Selling price: $215
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