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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.
(44 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
“Amongst the rarest to survive”
BLAEU, Willem Janszoon, 1621.
£315,000
The sky according to Plancius
PLANCIUS, Petrus, 1625.
£75,000
A fine Ptolemaic armillary sphere
1680.
£125,000
Vooght’s rare star chart and astronomical calculator
VOOGHT, Claes Jansz. [after] Jan Jansz STAMPIOEN, 1680.
£25,000
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
Homann’s rare pocket armillary
HOMANN, Johann Baptist, 1702.
£110,000
Fine broadside illustrating the so-called “Leiden Sphere” — the first mechanical model of a Copernican solar system
AA, Pieter Van der., 1711.
£1,800
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.