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Globes and Planetaria
Globes and Planetaria
Rare and antique globes, planetaria, celestial models, pocket globes, scientific instruments, and navigational and surveying tools.
(40 results)
A unique late Medieval/early Renaissance volvelle astronomical calendar
Anonymous, 1455.
£1,275,000
Rare volvelle from Apian’s Astronomicum Caesareum
APIANUS, Petrus, 1540.
£18,000
A brass Ptolemaic armillary sphere
DELLA VOLPAIA, Girolamo, 1598.
£45,000
The sky according to Plancius
PLANCIUS, Petrus, 1625.
£75,000
Vooght’s rare star chart and astronomical calculator
VOOGHT, Claes Jansz. [after] Jan Jansz STAMPIOEN, 1680.
£25,000
A fine Ptolemaic armillary sphere
1680.
£125,000
Time Zones
WAGNER, Matthäus, 1687.
£750
A dead man’s chest…
Anonymous, 1690.
£20,000
Lusvergh’s sales catalogue of artists’ drawing and optical instruments, including Galileo’s Sector
LUSVERGH, Domenico and LUSVERG [LUSVERGH], Jacobus [Giacomo]., 1698.
£6,500
The Copernican solar system
PIGEON D’OSANGI, Jean, 1713.
£12,000
Telling the time with stars
STAMPIOEN, Jan Jansz the Younger, [and] Marten CALMAM, 1722.
£25,000
The celestial vault in paper
ANDREAE, Johann Ludwig, 1724.
£3,000
Popularising the new scientific ideas of the Enlightenment in Germany
DOPPELMAYR, Johann Gabriel., 1730.
£65,000
Doppelmayr’s smallest globes
DOPPELMAYR, Johann Gabriel, 1736.
£36,000
An astronomical clock depicting the Tychonic solar system
FREY, I[gnaz], 1751.
£1,600
A previously unrecorded state of a rare promotional broadside for an astronomical clock
NAYLOR, Joseph, 1752.
£10,000
Showing the results of Bering’s expedition to the Kamchatka Peninsula
HILL, Nathaniel., 1754.
£16,000
The transit of Halley’s comet in 1758
MARTIN, Benjamin, 1757.