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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.
(46 results)
The transit of Halley’s comet in 1758
MARTIN, Benjamin, 1757.
£12,000
“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
“Owhyhee / Here C. Cook / was Kill’d”
LANE, N[icholas], 1776.
£7,700
Newton’s first pocket globe
NEWTON, J[ohn], 1783.
£20,000
Doppelmayr expands his horizons
DOPPELMAYR, Johann Gabriel, 1789.
£75,000
The Solar System in a box
BLUNT, Thomas, 1800.
£215,000
An early identification of the Mackenzie River
NEWTON, John, 1800.
£6,200
“Cook’s going out 1776”
ADAMS, Dudley, 1808.
£4,700
Beware of the “Ice Sea”
ADAMS, Dudley, 1808.
£7,700
Bauer’s miniature nesting globes
BAUER, J[ohann] B[ernard], 1810.
£14,000
Following the footsteps of Captain Biscoe
NEWTON, [John], NEWTON, William and NEWTON, Edward, 1833.
£7,000
Looking up
[DES-ROIS, Ginot], as “Mlle. Ginot DesRoy”, 1847.
£3,100
A Cyrillic globe
KROTOVII, 1849.
£10,000
Sign on the meridian line
Anonymous, 1850.
£4,000
Surveyor’s offset staff
1850.