Browse Listings in Celestials
Sphères..
Rare print of an armillary sphere, which is basically a skeletal celestial sphere with a model of the Earth or, later, of the Sun placed in the center. It is useful as a ...
Place & Date: Paris 1750
Selling price: $145
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Planisphaerium Coeleste.
This decorative and rare, boldly-engraved double hemisphere map illustrates north and south polar hemispheres, with smaller circular diagrams showing the Ptolemaic, Tycho...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1750
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2017
Planisphaerium Coeleste.
A very decorative double hemisphere celestial chart, centered on the North and South Poles, with smaller circular diagrams illustrating the theories of Tycho, Ptolemy, La...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1750
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2010
Planisphaerium Coeleste.
A very decorative double hemisphere celestial chart, centered on the North and South Poles, with smaller circular diagrams illustrating the theories of Tycho, Ptolemy, La...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1750
Selling price: $3000
Sold in 2013
Planisphaerum coeleste.
A very decorative double hemisphere celestial chart. The smaller circular diagram showing the rotation of the Planets, according to Tycho Brahe, Ptolemy and Copernicus. F...
Place & Date: Nurenberg, 1750
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2019
Planisphaerium Coeleste.
A very decorative double hemisphere celestial chart, centered on the North and South Poles, with smaller circular diagrams illustrating the theories of Tycho, Ptolemy, La...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1750
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2021
Le globe celeste.
Scarce small celestial chart in double hemispheres based on cartography of Guillaume Delisle (. Published in "Nouveau traité de geographie par M**** ", publish...
Place & Date: Paris, 1752
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2021
Système de Copernic de Ticho Brahe, etde Decartes.
Four models of the earth, sun and planets, based upon Ptolemy, Copernicus, Tycho Brahe and Descartes. Published in "Nouveau traité de geographie par M**** ", p...
Place & Date: Paris, 1752
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2017
Le Globe Celeste.
Scarce decorative double hemisphere celestial map, based on the cartography of De L’Isle. Published in “Nouveau Traite de Geography”. The map exhibits the constella...
Place & Date: Paris, 1752
Selling price: $135
Sold in 2020
Schematismus Geographiae Mathematicae. . .
A charming print showing a celestial and an armillary globe and circular diagrams illustrating the theories of Copernicus and Brahe. Compass-card, two wall maps of Asia a...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1753
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2011
Schematismus Geographiae Mathematicae. . .
The uncommon Homann Heirs chart of the Solar System features 23 diagrams including spheres, earth, celestial globes, planetary systems, temperature zones, and projection ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1753
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2017
TABULA ANEMOGRAPHICA SEU PYXIS NAUTICA VULGO COMPASS CHARTE
Rare engraved wind chart showing the compass disc divided in 32 sections, with text in six languages (German, Dutch, Italian, Latin, French and Spanish). Surrounding th...
Place & Date: Augsburg, c. 1755
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2008
Tabula Anemographica seu Pyxis Nautica...
Tabula Anemographica seu Pyxis Nautica, vulgo Compass Charte. Rare engraved wind chart showing the compass disc divided in 32 sections, with text in six languages (German...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1755
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2014
De L'Aerologie.
A decorative map showing four celestial models. Left and right boxes with geographical information about aerology,refraction and twilight.Prepared by de Mornas, who was a...
Place & Date: Paris, 1756
Selling price: $13
Sold in 2017
Geographie Modern Historique et Politique.
A set of five globes featuring Zones, Longitude, Antiodes, Climates and Latitude. It has the explanations outlined in the right and left boxes. Prepared by de Mornas, wh...
Place & Date: Paris, 1756
Selling price: $12
Sold in 2017
Planisphere celeste meridional..
Beautiful celestial chart of the southern skies by the well-known French astronomer, Philippe de La Hire. Updated by N. de Fer, published by Desnos. Several non-Ptolemaic...
Place & Date: Paris 1760
Selling price: $900
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Ephemerides en figures conformes aux ephemerides..
Uncommon chart of an eclipse of the Sun, Mercurius, Venus, Mars in the years of 1751 and 1752. The schedule was prepared by l'Abbé André Brancas-Villeneuve a French cos...
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1760
Selling price: $190
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Systema solare et Planetarium..
One of J.G.Doppelmayer's celestial charts, appearing in Homann's Atlas Coelestis.It depicts the system of Copernicus with the orbits of the planets and the twelve constel...
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1760
Selling price: $2100
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Kalendrium Juliano Romanum Perpetuum.
Perpetual calendar, based on the circulation of the planets. Such calendars were pricked on the wall and thus were destroyed easily. An example can be found on Vermeer’...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1760
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2015
Planisphaerium Coeleste.
A hihgly decorative double hemisphere celestial chart, centered on the North and South Poles, with seven smaller circular diagrams illustrating the theories of Tycho, Pto...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1730-1760
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2016
Systema solare et Planetarium..
One of J.G.Doppelmayr's celestial charts, appearing in Homann's Atlas Coelestis.It depicts the system of Copernicus with the orbits of the planets and the twelve constell...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1760
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2023
De la Longitude et de la Latitude. / Suite de la Longitude.
Claude Buy de Mornas (d. 1783), géographe du roi (1764). Atlas Méthodique et Elémentaire de Géographie et d' Histoire, 1761, Atlas Historique et Géographique, 1762. ...
Place & Date: Paris, L.C. Desnos, 1761
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
A celestial chart depicting the astronomical systems according to Ptolemy and to Tycho Brahe.
A celestial chart depicting the astronomical systems according to Ptolemy and to Tycho Brahe. Claude Buy de Mornas (dl 1783), géographe du roi (1764). Atlas 'Méthodique...
Place & Date: Paris, 1761
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2020
De l'Aërologie.
Decorative chart showing various celestial models.Left and right a box with geographical information about the Aero logy, Refraction, and Twilight.Prepared by Buy de Morn...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $100
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La Manière de reconnoitre kes Principales Etoiles dans le Ciel.
Decorative chart of the Milky Way and positions of the stars in the Sky. Left and right a box with geographical information about the welkin .Prepared by Buy de Mornas, w...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $100
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Globe Céleste.
Attractive engraved celestial globe, oriented to show Leo, Taurus, Virgo, Ursa Major and Minor, Cancer and a handful of other constellations.Left and right a box with geo...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $120
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Des Planètes.
Interesting engraving showing contemporary instruments for charting the heavens and implementation of the instruments to observe the stars.Left and right a box with infor...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $65
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Des Planètes subalternes et de la Paralaxe.
Decorative engraving showing the phases of the moon.Left and right a box with geographical information about various planets .Prepared by Buy de Mornas, who was a profess...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $65
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Des Planètes en Particulier.
Chart of the solar system.Left and right a box with geographical information about various planets: "Mercury, Venus, La Terre, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn.Prepared by Buy ...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $100
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Du Zodiaque et de l'Eclyptique.
Decorative celestial chart showing the solar and lunar eclipses.Left and right a box with information about the zodiac and the ecliptic.Prepared by Buy de Mornas, who was...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $40
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Colures, Tropiques, Cercles Polaires, et leurs Usages.
Decorative chart showing the main celestial circles.Left and right a box with information about colures as well as tropical and polar circles.Prepared by Buy de Mornas, w...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $53
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De l'Horison.
Decorative chart representing the right, oblique and parallel sphere.Left and right a box with information about the horizon.Prepared by Buy de Mornas, who was a professo...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $40
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Pôles du Monde, de l'Eclyptique, et de l'Horison. Points des..
Decorative map presenting a compass rose and a wind rose.Left and right a box with information about the cardinal points, the poles as well as the equinoctial and the sol...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $40
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Sistême de Descartes.
Decorative celestial map representing the solar system as conceived by Descartes.Left and right a box with information about the philosopher's ideas about the outer space...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $63
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Sistême de Copernic.
Decorative celestial map representing the solar system as conceived by Copernicus.Left and right a box with information about the philosopher's ideas about the outer spac...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $35
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Centre du Monde. Systêmes de Ptolomée et de Ticho-Brahé.
Decorative celestial map representing the conception of the universe according to Ptolomaeus and Ticho-Brahé.Left and right a box with information about both systems.Pre...
Place & Date: Paris, 1762
Selling price: $85
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Introduction à la Géographie.
Decorative chart representing the celestial sphere.Left and right a box containing an introduction to geography.Prepared by Buy de Mornas, who was a professor of geograph...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $60
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Explication des Saisons.
Decorative celestial chart representing the Earth's revolution around the sun.Left and right a box with information explaining the phenomenon of the seasons.Prepared by B...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $30
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Hemisphaerium Boreale - Hemisphaerium Australe.
Handsome miniature celestial chart depicting the mythological form of the constellations in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Two ecliptic diagrams are tucked betwee...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1762
Selling price: $90
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Du Méridien et de l'Équateur.
Decorative chart of one hemisphere divided into meridians and showing the main celestial circles with the equator colored in red.Left and right a box with information abo...
Place & Date: Paris, 1762
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2011
Géographie Moderne, Historique et Politique (Lot of 2 prints)
Two decorative celestial chart showing the systems according to Ptolemy, Tycho Brahe, Copernicus and Descartes. The second print is entitled "Démonstrations géomé...
Place & Date: Paris, 1762
Selling price: $105
Sold in 2015
![[ Lot of 6 world and thematic maps ] Climats d'Heures et de Mois.](/uploads/cache/IMG_0772-250x250.jpg)
[ Lot of 6 world and thematic maps ] Climats d'Heures et de Mois.
A map of the Ancient World with the climate circles. On both sides a description text. All within an elaborate and very decorative border. A very fine item.Claude Buy...
Place & Date: Paris, 1762
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2023
Passage de l' Ombre de la Lune au travers de l' Europe? 1er Avril 1764. / Fases de l' Eclipse telles qu'on les obsevera a Paris.
A highly uncommon map of Europe in sepia printing with superposed in black printing the track of the solar eclips of the 1st of April 1764.Calculated and engraved entirel...
Place & Date: Paris, 1764
Selling price: $1500
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![Hèmisphère Celeste Antarctique ou Austral. . . [together with] Hèmisphère Celeste Antarctique ou Septentrional. . .](/uploads/cache/34119-250x250.jpg)
Hèmisphère Celeste Antarctique ou Austral. . . [together with] Hèmisphère Celeste Antarctique ou Septentrional. . .
Map printed in two colors, black for the stars, red for the constellation figures.Uncommon set of large-scale celestial charts of the southern and northern hemispheres ca...
Place & Date: Paris, Delamarche, after 1764
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2014
![De la Geologie. Du Zodiaque et du L' Eclyptique, Explication des Saisons. [Lot of 3 maps]](/uploads/cache/IMG_0104-250x250.jpg)
De la Geologie. Du Zodiaque et du L' Eclyptique, Explication des Saisons. [Lot of 3 maps]
Claude Buy de Mornas (d. 1783), géographe du roi (1764). Atlas Méthodique et Elémentaire de Géographie et d' Histoire, 1761, Atlas Historique et Géographique, 1762. ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1762-1764
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2023
Systêmes de Ptolémée-Copernic- Descartes- Tycho Brahé.
Louis Brion de la Tour (1756-1823), ' Atlas Géneral, Civil et Ecclésiastique', 1766, ' Atlas Général', 1790-98. Louis Charles Desnos (fl.1750-70), Le Rouge's 'Atlas N...
Place & Date: Paris, 1766
Selling price: $85
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Globes Terrestre / Céleste
A set of a terrestrial and a celestial globe, from the ' Atlas Géneral, Civil et Ecclésiastique'.Louis Brion de la Tour (1756-1823), ' Atlas Géneral, Civil et Ecclési...
Place & Date: Paris, 1766
Selling price: $97
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Systêmes de Ptolémée-Copernic- Descartes- Tycho Brahé.
A celestial print from the Atlas Général, Civil et Ecclésiastique with 4 different solar systems. Chart is printed within a decorative border.
Place & Date: Paris 1766
Selling price: $90
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The Terms and Principles of Geography with Their Astrological Connections.
An interesting set of 4 images on one sheet, including an armillary sphere, a model of the solar system, geographical circles, and a model of the various geographical fea...
Place & Date: London, 1770
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2019
Figure du Passage de la Penombre de la Lune. . .
An interesting map showing the solar eclipse of April 1764 by Scattalglia in Paris in 1770.
Place & Date: Paris, 1770
Selling price: $7
Sold in 2020
To Count Cyrillus de Rasumowsky...
Very rare copper-engraved celestial chart on hand-laid paper! We could not trace any other example or reference to it. Shows many prominent star constellations. Below wit...
Place & Date: ca. 1770
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2022
Introduction a la geographie carte des diverses positions..
A charming print showing a terrestrial, celestial and an armillary globe with smaller circular diagrams illustrating the theories of Ptolemy, Copernicus, Brahe and Descar...
Place & Date: Lyon 1771
Selling price: $1025
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Tensho kanki sho.
Japanese rotating star map. Diameter of the rotatable star map 109mm. Horizon circle 77mm. 24pp."Tensho kanki sho", which means "Brief explanation of astro...
Place & Date: Edo, (Anei 3), 1774
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2013
“An Analemma Shewing by Inspection the Time of Sun Rising and Sun Setting, the Lengths of Days and Nights, Beginning and End of Twilight and the Point of the Compass on which the Sun Rises and Sets, for every Five Degrees of Latitude and for every five De
An interesting engraving of an 'ANALEMMA', a "pedestal of a sundial", Showing the time of sun rising and sun setting, the lengths of days and nights the beginni...
Place & Date: London, 1774
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2017
The Principal Fixed Stars of the South Hemisphere Delineated on the Plane of the Equator.
An interesting celestial chart of thirty principal fixed stars for the year 1774. The table on the left gives the variations and declinations for future years. Includes t...
Place & Date: London, 1774
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2018
![Planisphere celeste Septentrional. . . [together with] Planisphere celeste Meridinale. . .](/uploads/cache/22228-250x250.jpg)
Planisphere celeste Septentrional. . . [together with] Planisphere celeste Meridinale. . .
A pair of celestial charts depicting the constellations of the Northern and Southern hemispheres. Designed by Gabriel Philllipe de la Hire (1640-1719). The center point o...
Place & Date: Paris, 1775
Selling price: $2400
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Planisferio Celeste Meridionale tagliato sull Equatore.
Celestial chart, showing the observatories in Paris, Kassel, Greenwich, Copenhagen. The southern skies. Engraved by G.Zuliani after G. Pitteri. A beautiful celestial char...
Place & Date: Venice 1777
Selling price: $345
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Planisferio Celeste Settentrionale tagliato sull Equatore.
Celestial chart, showing the observatories in Paris, Kassel, Greenwich, Copenhagen. The southern skies. Engraved by G.Zuliani after G. Pitteri.The chart has in lower part...
Place & Date: Venice 1777
Selling price: $345
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![Planisferio Celeste Meridionale tagliato sull Equatore. [together with] Planisferio Celeste Settentrionale tagliato sull Equatore.](/uploads/cache/28674-250x250.jpg)
Planisferio Celeste Meridionale tagliato sull Equatore. [together with] Planisferio Celeste Settentrionale tagliato sull Equatore.
Pair of attractive engravings of celestial planispheres with the constellations shown in their allegorical guises.Celestial chart, showing the observatories in Paris, Kas...
Place & Date: Venice, 1777
Selling price: $2250
Sold in 2013
Planisferio Celeste Meridionale tagliato sull Equatore.
Celestial chart, showing the observatories in Paris, Kassel, Greenwich, Copenhagen. The southern skies. Engraved by G.Zuliani after G. Pitteri. A beautiful celestial char...
Place & Date: Venice, 1777
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2013
Tavola Sferica.
Depicting chart with three spheres showing the rotation of the earth and its relation to the zodiac. With very large comass rose showing the direction of Mediterranean wi...
Place & Date: Venice, 1777
Selling price: $59
Sold in 2016
Vorstellung einer Gegend des gestirnten Himmels vom Nordwest nach Nordost.
An unusual engraved celestial chart of the constellations of the Northern skies. Includes Ursa Major (Great Bear), Leo, Lynx, Dragon, Camel, Hercules, etc. Shows the Nort...
Place & Date: Germany, c1777
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2013
Posizione diversa degliabitanti della terra.
Attractive Italian illustration describing 5 astronomical spheres and a compass rose. From ?Atlante Novissimo.? Attractive and finely engraved.
Place & Date: Venice 1779
Selling price: $150
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Tavola Sferica.
Attractive Italian astronomical chart with 5 spheres showing Latitudes and Longitudes, with 8 smaller spheres depicting the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars & Venus. From &qu...
Place & Date: Venice, 1779
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2013
Tavola Cosmografica .I. Mappa dell' Universo e de due pui celebri sistemi planetarj..
Double-hemispheres, celestial projections from the northern and southern hemispheres. Drawn by Castellan, embellished by Pittori and engraved by Zuliani. Blank on verso.F...
Place & Date: Venice 1779
Selling price: $200
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Posizione Diversa Deglia Abitanti Della Terra.
This decorative print explains the different regions of the earth, divided by lines of longitude and latitude, and into its tropical, temperate and polar regions. From Za...
Place & Date: Venice, 1779
Selling price: $46
Sold in 2023
Planisphaerium Coeleste. Verlegt von I.M.Probst.
Scarce and very handsome celestial chart showing the constellations in allegorical form. Published by the lesser known brother Johann Michael Probst.Tucked between the cu...
Place & Date: Augsburg 1780
Selling price: $250
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Altare
Uncommon celestial print showing the constellation of Altar, engraved by Johann Christoph Berndt and published by Johann Philipp Andreae (1700-1757).Published in the 'Mer...
Place & Date: Nuremberg c.1780
Selling price: $160
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La Sphère Artificielle ou Armilaire Oblique.
Decorative copper plate showing armillary Sphere, two spheres according to Copernicus and Ptolemy and two diagrams.Sphere on a decorative stand.
Place & Date: Paris c. 1780
Selling price: $250
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Demonstrations Geometriques, des Spheres Droite, Paralelle, et Oblique.
Louis Brion de la Tour (1756-1823), ' Atlas Géneral, Civil et Ecclésiastique', 1766, ' Atlas Général', 1790-98. Louis Charles Desnos (fl.1750-70).A celestial print fr...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1780
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2013
La Sphere Artificielle Ou Armilaire Oblique, elevée sur l'Horizon à la Latitude de Paris.
An attractive scientific plate with a large armillary sphere and is surrounded by two hemisphere maps - the Western showing the Americas with an island California and par...
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1781
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2020
De la Boussole ou Rose des Vents / Des Phases de la Lune. / Des Eclipses de Soleil. / Des Eclipse de Lune. / Du Crépuscule. / De l'Atmosphère.
A compass-rose, surrounded by 5 solar systems published by Monhare for his Atlas Général a l'usage des colleges et maisons d'education..
Place & Date: Paris 1783
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2019
Sphère de Ptolomée.. Rose de Boussole..
The Ptolemaic, parallel and right spheres are represented in the left hand side while in the right hand side are a compass rose and a wind rose.From theAtlas moderne ou c...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1783
Selling price: $18
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Représentation du Globe céleste En deux Plans Hémisphères Coupés par l'Ecliptique.
Armillary Sphere prepared by J.B.Nolin and published by Monhare for his Atlas Général a l'usage des colleges et maisons d'education.. Louis Joseph Mondhare was active i...
Place & Date: Paris, 1783
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2008
![[Celestial chart] Sphere de Ptolomée / Rose de boussole . . .](/uploads/cache/42835-250x250.jpg)
[Celestial chart] Sphere de Ptolomée / Rose de boussole . . .
Celestial chart with a Ptolemy sphere and a compass card.Prepared by Le Sieur Janvier, Jean Denis [Robert], French geographer and cartographer.In addition to work publish...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1783
Selling price: $17
Sold in 2019
SYSTEME DE COPERNIC ou Abrege de l'Astronomie.
This is one of several decorative terrestrial and celestial engravings published in Paris, entitled 'System of Copernicus', presenting various astronomical and geographic...
Place & Date: Paris, 1783
Selling price: $32
Sold in 2021
Du Zodiaque et de L'Eclyptique / Eclypse de Soleil / Eclypse de Lune.
A chart depicting the eclipse of the sun and moon with descriptive text on both sides. By De Mornas. Claude Buy de Mornas (d. 1783), was Géographe du roi (1764). He prod...
Place & Date: Paris, 1786
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2019
Colures, Tropiques, cercles Polaires, et Leurs Usages.
A chart depicting the tropics of cancer and capricorn, and the north and south poles with descriptive text on both sides. By De Mornas.Claude Buy de Mornas (d. 1783), was...
Place & Date: Paris, 1786
Selling price: $17
Sold in 2019
Reduction de la grande Carte de la Lune de J. Dom. Cassini.
The reduction of Cassini IV's reissue of his great-grandfather's rare and "elegant" lunar map. Jean-Dominique Cassini, known as Cassini IV (1748-1845), was born...
Place & Date: Paris, 1788
Selling price: $2400
Sold in 2019
Constellations in the Northern & Southern Hemispheres
This exceptional, detailed, double hemisphere celestial map was engraved by C. Cooke. The northern and southern hemispheres are filled with hand colored figures depicting...
Place & Date: London, 1789
Selling price: $121
Sold in 2016