Globes and Planetaria
Rare and antique globes, planetaria, celestial models, pocket globes, scientific instruments, and navigational and surveying tools.
(66 results)
“Homann Sac. Caes. Ma.”
HOMANN, Johann Baptist, 1715.
£42,500
Follow the trade winds
MOLL, Herman, 1719.
£35,000
Telling the time with stars
STAMPIOEN, Jan Jansz the Younger, [and] Marten CALMAM, 1722.
£40,000
The celestial vault in paper
ANDREAE, Johann Ludwig, 1724.
£8,000
Popularising the new scientific ideas of the Enlightenment in Germany
DOPPELMAYR, Johann Gabriel., 1730.
£54,000
The “unknown parts” of Hudson Bay
CUSHEE, Richard, 1731.
£20,000
Doppelmayr’s smallest globes
DOPPELMAYR, Johann Gabriel, 1736.
£31,000
A Dutch calendar
HENNING, Viet Balthasar, 1750.
£6,000
An astronomical clock depicting the Tychonic solar system
FREY, I[gnaz], 1751.
£1,600
A previously unrecorded state of a rare promotional broadside for an astronomical clock
NAYLOR, Joseph, 1752.
£10,000
Rare uncut sheets for an armillary sphere
ROBERT DE VAUGONDY, Gilles and Didier, 1754.
£7,500
Showing the results of Bering’s expedition to the Kamchatka Peninsula
HILL, Nathaniel., 1754.
£14,000
The transit of Halley’s comet in 1758
MARTIN, Benjamin, 1757.
£12,000
The “Cosmo-plane”
DICQUEMARE, l’Abbé Jacques Francois, 1768.
£75,000
“Ingenieur-Mechanicien pour les Globes et Spheres”
FORTIN, [Jean] and BUY DE MORNAS, M. [Claude], 1768.
£33,200
An unrecorded analemma
DONN, B[enjamin], 1770.
£9,500
The coast (of Australia) is clear
FERGUSON, James, 1775.
£12,000
Showing the track of Cook’s ‘Endeavour’ voyage
ANONYMOUS, after MOLL, Herman, 1775.