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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.
(66 results)
A deluxe, illuminated and coloured example of a rare wall calendar
Anonymous, 1560.
£80,000
An unrecorded solar calendar
ROSSI, Teodosio, 1591.
£6,000
An early perpetual calendar
TORO, Ortensio, 1594.
£6,000
Rare Pillar sundial dedicated to Henreich Rantzau, an associate of Tycho Brahe
TRANCKIUS, J[oachim], 1596.
£3,000
Rare treatise on the chalice sundial
BRENTEL, Georg, 1615.
£12,000
“Amongst the rarest to survive”
BLAEU, Willem Janszoon, 1621.
£315,000
An apparently unrecorded dial
HEIDEN, Jacobus ab, 1630.
£1,500
The apotheosis of the Golden Age of Dutch cartography
BLAEU, Willem, 1645.
£1,500,000
Rare treatise on Sundials
SEITZ, David, 1649.
£2,500
The only known examples of instruments made for an unpublished quarto edition of ‘Dell’Arcano del Mare’
LUCINI, Antonio Francesco, 1665.
£10,000
Vooght’s rare star chart and astronomical calculator
VOOGHT, Claes Jansz. [after] Jan Jansz STAMPIOEN, 1680.
£40,000
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.
£12,000
Homann’s rare pocket armillary
HOMANN, Johann Baptist, 1702.
£92,500
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.