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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)
Doppelmayr’s smallest globes
DOPPELMAYR, Johann Gabriel, 1736.
£31,000
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
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 pair of 18-inch Bardin Globes on Table Stands
BARDIN, William., 1799.
£80,000
A unique manuscript lunar astrolabe
Anonymous, 1800.
£21,000
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.