Globes and Planetaria
Rare and antique globes, planetaria, celestial models, pocket globes, scientific instruments, and navigational and surveying tools.
(47 results)
The Meissen Mapseller
MAPSELLER
£2,000
Rare volvelle from Apian’s Astronomicum Caesareum
APIANUS, Petrus, 1540.
£18,000
A deluxe, illuminated and coloured example of a rare wall calendar
Anonymous, 1560.
£80,000
“Amongst the rarest to survive”
BLAEU, Willem Janszoon, 1621.
£315,000
Vooght’s rare star chart and astronomical calculator
VOOGHT, Claes Jansz. [after] Jan Jansz STAMPIOEN, 1680.
£40,000
A dead man’s chest…
Anonymous, 1690.
£20,000
Lusvergh’s sales catalogue of artists’ drawing and optical instruments, including Galileo’s Sector
LUSVERGH, Domenico and LUSVERG [LUSVERGH], Jacobus [Giacomo]., 1698.
£6,500
Homann’s rare pocket armillary
HOMANN, Johann Baptist, 1702.
£92,500
A perpetual calendar fit for a King…
Anonymous, 1710.
£15,000
Fine broadside illustrating the so-called “Leiden Sphere” — the first mechanical model of a Copernican solar system
AA, Pieter Van der., 1711.
£1,800
The Copernican solar system
PIGEON D’OSANGI, Jean, 1713.
£12,000
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.
£3,000
“The greatest globe-maker of his day”
SENEX, John, 1730.
£25,000
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.