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Globes and Planetaria
Rare and antique globes, planetaria, celestial models, pocket globes, scientific instruments, and navigational and surveying tools.
(46 results)
The Meissen Mapseller
MAPSELLER
£2,000
£1,600
Rare volvelle from Apian’s Astronomicum Caesareum
APIANUS, Petrus, 1540.
£18,000
£10,800
A deluxe, illuminated and coloured example of a rare wall calendar
Anonymous, 1560.
£80,000
£48,000
“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
Homann’s rare pocket armillary
HOMANN, Johann Baptist, 1702.
£92,500
£74,000
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
“Homann Sac. Caes. Ma.”
HOMANN, Johann Baptist, 1715.
£42,500
£34,000
Follow the trade winds
MOLL, Herman, 1719.
£35,000
£28,000
Telling the time with stars
STAMPIOEN, Jan Jansz the Younger, [and] Marten CALMAM, 1722.
£40,000
£24,000
Popularising the new scientific ideas of the Enlightenment in Germany
DOPPELMAYR, Johann Gabriel., 1730.
£54,000
£43,200
The “unknown parts” of Hudson Bay
CUSHEE, Richard, 1731.
£20,000
£16,000
Doppelmayr’s smallest globes
DOPPELMAYR, Johann Gabriel, 1736.
£31,000
£24,800
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.