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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.
(47 results)
The oldest Chinese engraving of star chart
Wang Zhiyuan after Huang Shang, 1247.
£50,000
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
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
Homann’s rare pocket armillary
HOMANN, Johann Baptist, 1702.
£110,000
A perpetual calendar fit for a King…
Anonymous, 1710.
£15,000
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.