Globes and Planetaria
Rare and antique globes, planetaria, celestial models, pocket globes, scientific instruments, and navigational and surveying tools.
(47 results)
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
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.
£50,000
“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.
£7,700
Rare planisphere
FLECHEUX, 1778.
£20,000
Newton’s first pocket globe
NEWTON, J[ohn], 1783.
£20,000
Doppelmayr expands his horizons
DOPPELMAYR, Johann Gabriel, 1789.
£75,000
A unique manuscript lunar astrolabe
Anonymous, 1800.
£21,000
“Cook’s going out 1776”
ADAMS, Dudley, 1808.
£4,700
Bauer’s miniature nesting globes
BAUER, J[ohann] B[ernard], 1810.
£14,000
A toymaker’s globe
MINSHULL, George after LANE, Nicholas, 1816.
£15,000
Looking up
[DES-ROIS, Ginot], as “Mlle. Ginot DesRoy”, 1847.
£3,100
A Cyrillic globe
KROTOVII, 1849.