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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.
(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.