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Rare and antique globes, planetaria, celestial models, pocket globes, scientific instruments, and navigational and surveying tools.
(69 results)
Showing the track of Cook’s ‘Endeavour’ voyage
ANONYMOUS, after MOLL, Herman, 1775.
£7,700
£6,160
“Owhyhee / Here C. Cook / was Kill’d”
LANE, N[icholas], 1776.
£7,700
£6,160
Rare planisphere
FLECHEUX, 1778.
£30,000
£18,000
Newton’s first pocket globe
NEWTON, J[ohn], 1783.
£20,000
£16,000
Doppelmayr expands his horizons
DOPPELMAYR, Johann Gabriel, 1789.
£75,000
£45,000
Chart chest
Anonymous, 1790.
£4,000
£2,400
The Solar System in a box
BLUNT, Thomas, 1800.
£215,000
£172,000
A unique manuscript lunar astrolabe
Anonymous, 1800.
£35,000
£21,000
An early identification of the Mackenzie River
NEWTON, John, 1800.
£6,200
£4,960
Parts for a Klinger globe
KLINGER, Johann Georg, 1800.
£1,000
£600
“Cook’s going out 1776”
ADAMS, Dudley, 1808.
£4,700
£3,760
Beware of the “Ice Sea”
ADAMS, Dudley, 1808.
£7,700
£6,160
Bauer’s miniature nesting globes
BAUER, J[ohann] B[ernard], 1810.
£14,000
£11,200
Rare Napoleonic era perpetual calendar
GAUTIE: IR PS, 1812.
£1,000
£600
Abraham’s pocket globe
ABRAHAM, Jacob [after] LANE, Nicholas, 1813.
£15,000
£12,000
Miersch’s “Star Clock”
MIERSCH, J.G., 1822.
£5,000
£3,000
Following the footsteps of Captain Biscoe
NEWTON, [John], NEWTON, William and NEWTON, Edward, 1833.
£7,000
£5,600
Looking up
[DES-ROIS, Ginot], as “Mlle. Ginot DesRoy”, 1847.