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Rare and antique globes, planetaria, celestial models, pocket globes, scientific instruments, and navigational and surveying tools.
(42 results)
A unique late Medieval/early Renaissance volvelle astronomical calendar
Anonymous, 1455.
£1,275,000
£1,020,000
Rare volvelle from Apian’s Astronomicum Caesareum
APIANUS, Petrus, 1540.
£18,000
£14,400
“Amongst the rarest to survive”
BLAEU, Willem Janszoon, 1621.
£315,000
£252,000
Vooght’s rare star chart and astronomical calculator
VOOGHT, Claes Jansz. [after] Jan Jansz STAMPIOEN, 1680.
£40,000
£24,000
A dead man’s chest…
Anonymous, 1690.
£20,000
£12,000
Lusvergh’s sales catalogue of artists’ drawing and optical instruments, including Galileo’s Sector
LUSVERGH, Domenico and LUSVERG [LUSVERGH], Jacobus [Giacomo]., 1698.
£6,500
£3,900
Homann’s rare pocket armillary
HOMANN, Johann Baptist, 1702.
£110,000
£88,000
A perpetual calendar fit for a King…
Anonymous, 1710.
£15,000
£9,000
Fine broadside illustrating the so-called “Leiden Sphere” — the first mechanical model of a Copernican solar system
AA, Pieter Van der., 1711.
£1,800
£1,080
The Copernican solar system
PIGEON D’OSANGI, Jean, 1713.
£12,000
£7,200
Telling the time with stars
STAMPIOEN, Jan Jansz the Younger, [and] Marten CALMAM, 1722.
£40,000
£24,000
The celestial vault in paper
ANDREAE, Johann Ludwig, 1724.
£3,000
£1,800
Popularising the new scientific ideas of the Enlightenment in Germany
DOPPELMAYR, Johann Gabriel., 1730.
£65,000
£52,000
Doppelmayr’s smallest globes
DOPPELMAYR, Johann Gabriel, 1736.
£36,000
£28,800
An astronomical clock depicting the Tychonic solar system
FREY, I[gnaz], 1751.
£1,600
£960
A previously unrecorded state of a rare promotional broadside for an astronomical clock
NAYLOR, Joseph, 1752.
£10,000
£6,000
Showing the results of Bering’s expedition to the Kamchatka Peninsula
HILL, Nathaniel., 1754.
£16,000
£12,800
The transit of Halley’s comet in 1758
MARTIN, Benjamin, 1757.