Browse Listings in Celestials
Sphére Armillaire.
Armillary sphere.
Place & Date: Paris 1790
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2009
Das Planeten-System der Sonne wie es seit dem Jahr 1781 bekannt geworden.
An important and rare celestial chart of the solar system that includes Uranus, which was discovered by Sir Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel. Bode was the first to map its orbi...
Place & Date: Berlin, ca 1790
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2018
Stereographischer Entwurf des Gestirnten Himmels vom Nordpol bis zum 38sten Grad südlicher Abweichung.
A very large graphic celestial chart depicting the North equatorial pole. Filled with stars and constellations. Bode produced several highly important celestial works. En...
Place & Date: Berlin, ca 1790
Selling price: $105
Sold in 2018
![[Lot of 2 prints] TABLEAU ANALYTIQUE des différentes positions de la Sphère, des diff'rents systèmes, des révolutions et des distances des Planètes, &c.](/uploads/cache/17613-(6)-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 2 prints] TABLEAU ANALYTIQUE des différentes positions de la Sphère, des diff'rents systèmes, des révolutions et des distances des Planètes, &c.
Attractive set of two prints with a celestial and a terrestial globe, two spheres demonstrating the celestial systems of Ptolemy and Copernicus and several other diag...
Place & Date: Pris, c. 1790
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2023
Sterre Kaert of Hemels Pleyn, waer door met kan wete hoe laet dat het is over de gehele aertkloot op alle meridiane...
A large and unusual Dutch celestial chart. It shows the constellations of both the northern and southern hemispheres on a single rectangular projection.With twelve new co...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1792
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2016
Sterre Kaert of Hemels Pleyn. . .
A fantastic 18th century copper engraved map. This large and unusual Dutch celestial chart shows the constellations of both the northern and southern hemispheres on a sin...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1792
Selling price: $510
Sold in 2018
Sterre kaert of hemels pleyn, waer door men kan wete hoe laet dat het is over de gehele aertkloot, op alle meridiane en polus hoogte . . .
A most attractive Mercator style oblong projection of the entire night sky showing all the heavenly bodies of the northern and southern skies, and with panels of astrolog...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1792
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2020
Astronomy - Northern & Southern Hemispheres with the figures of the Constellations.
[Plates LXXXV & LXXXVI] A nice pair of copperplate engravings published by Andrew Bell, a Scottish engraver and printer, who co-founded Encyclopedia Britannica with C...
Place & Date: Edinburgh, ca 1792
Selling price: $36
Sold in 2020
Astronomy. Figures 26 & 29. Plates LXV & LXV.
A lovely pair of copperplate astronomical plates displaying "The Principal fixed Stars in the North Hemisphere [and the South Hemisphere] Delineated on the Plane of ...
Place & Date: London, 1792
Selling price: $12
Sold in 2021
Planches de l'origine de tous les cultes, du citoyen dupuis, avec leur explication.
Original edition. Atlas volume of the four volume work "Origine de tous les cultes" with a fine engraved title page after Ducoudray and engraved by Pauquet.Illu...
Place & Date: Paris, Agasse, An III, 1795
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2015
![[No Title] A pair of celestial gores.](/uploads/cache/45931-250x250.jpg)
[No Title] A pair of celestial gores.
Two hand colored engraved gores: one showing the northern hemisphere (sheet nine with Hercules), and the southern hemisphere (sheet nine with Serpent and Scorpion. These ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1693 but ca. 1800
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2020
Lynx, Telescopium Herschelii, Auriga.
Bode's influental "Uranographia" was on of the greatest achievements in the Golden Age of celestial cartography. This charts shows many stars and nebulaes but m...
Place & Date: BERLIN, 1801
Selling price: $1200
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Ursa Major; Leo Minor.
This celestial chart shows the Big Dipper, which makes the Bear's hindquarters and tail. Below Ursa Major is Leo Minor, the Smaller Lion. With numerous stars and informat...
Place & Date: BERLIN, 1801
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2012
Ursa Major Constellation (Big Dipper)
A rare and extraordinary 1801 Johann Elbert Bode elephant folio celestial, constellation, or star map of Ursa Major (the Great Bear or Big Dipper) and Leo Minor. Consider...
Place & Date: Berlin, 1801
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2020
Pisces constellation
A rare and extraordinary 1801 Johann Elbert Bode elephant folio celestial, constellation, or star map of Pisces.Considered the largest and most dramatic celestial maps of...
Place & Date: Berlin, 1801
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2020
Cellestial Companion or projects in plano of the Starry..
Complete title: Celestial companion or projections in plano of the Starry heavens simple, original and useful: Accompanied by observations, explanatory of their use and a...
Place & Date: Islington 1803
Selling price: $1650
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Tableau Analytique des Differentes Positions de la Sphere
A fine, large chart by Charles Francois Delamarche (1740-1817) that explains the different theories of the solar system, according to Copernicus, Tycho Brahe and Ptolemy....
Place & Date: Paris, 1804
Selling price: $215
Sold in 2016
System de Copernic ou Abrege de l'Astrononie.
A large detailed chart of Copernicus' theory of the solar system surrounded with descriptive panels of French text. The outermost planet is noted as Herschel, the first p...
Place & Date: Paris, 1804
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2017
La Sphère Artificielle, ou Armilaire Oblique.
Decorative print showing a celestial hemisphere, surrounded by projections of Brahe, Copernicus and Ptolemy, from Atlas moderne portatif composé de vingt-huit cartes sur...
Place & Date: Paris, Prudhomme, Levrault, Debray, 1806
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018
Démonstration de quelques effets du Soleil et de la Lune, et des principaux objets de l'Aréologie.
Representation of lunar phases, eclipses and other phenomenons, with explanatory text in the lower half of the engraving.From Atlas de la Géographie de toutes les partie...
Place & Date: Paris, Prudhomme, Levrault, Debray, 1806
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2013
Division Astronomique du Globe Terrestre en Cercles, Zones, Climats..
Representation of several spheres illustrating the climatic areas, parallels, meridians etc.From Atlas de la Géographie de toutes les parties du monde .. Ouvrage destinÃ...
Place & Date: Paris, Prudhomme, Levrault, Debray, 1806
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2013
Hemisphere Austral
Striking and highly detailed copper engraved chart showing the constellations located in the Austral Hemisphere. The engraving is the same as Flamsteed's.
Place & Date: Paris, 1814
Selling price: $38
Sold in 2015
Planisferio Celeste..
Decorative large-scale hemisphere celestial chart, with a diameter 603mm., calculated for the year 1800. With descriptive key to zodiac signs in German, French and Italia...
Place & Date: Milan, c.1822
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2009
Celestial Map of the Constellations in the Northern & Southern Hemispheres (2 Maps).
A finely engraved pair of celestial charts after Alexander Jamieson. Jamieson based much of this work from that of Johann Elert Bode (1747–1826), who was director of th...
Place & Date: London, 1822
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2020
Jamieson Celestial chart plate 24, first edition.
Plate 24 Eridanus, Orion, Lepus, Columba, Cela Sculptoris, Psalterium Georgii, Sceptrum Brandenburgium.From Alexander Jamieson’s Celestial Atlas which appeared in Febru...
Place & Date: London, 1822
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2019
Delphinus, Equuleus and Pegasus.
An exquisite hand colored engraving from the first American celestial atlas. Jacob Green's 1824 work, “Astronomical Recreations; or, Sketches of the Relative Position a...
Place & Date: Philadelphia, 1824
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2017
Tableau Analytique des Différens..
The illustrated globes and spheres are similar to the ones sold by Delamarche. Also depicting Sun, Moon and several positions. Engraved by Pelicier.
Place & Date: Paris, 1825
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2013
DENDERHA (TENTYRIS) Zodiaque Sculpte Au Plafond De L'Une Des Salles Superieures Du Grand Temple.
Zodiac ceiling from the Grand Temple at Denderah, from Description de l'Égypte Antiquités, vol. 4.Engraved by Louis Jean Allais in 1826. Prosper Jollois and Edouard Dev...
Place & Date: Paris, 1826
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2018
Systemes Planetaires.
A pleasing example of E. Lapie's 1829 chart of the planetary solar systems. This beautifully engraved chart consists of eleven astronomically themed elements including a ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1829
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2017
Sistemi Del Mondo.
A detailed engraving of the Solar Systems Armillary Sphere. This unusual celestial chart features ten systems and comes from "Kuvorno Tipographia di Glauco Masi"...
Place & Date: Rome, 1833
Selling price: $27
Sold in 2019
(2 charts) Northern Circumpolar Map for each Month in the Year & Southern Circumpolar Map for each Month . . .
Scarce pair of celestial charts from Elijah H. Burritt’s famous "Atlas Designed to Illustrate the Geography of the Heavens" published by F. J. Huntington &...
Place & Date: Hartford, 1835
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2014
Planispheres Celestes.
A striking celestial chart in the form of two spheres showing the position and courses of the planets in the northern and southern hemispheres. Includes the Ecliptic, the...
Place & Date: Paris, 1836
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2021
Révolution annuelle de la Terre autour du Soleil. . .
Large spectacular chart tracking the 12 monthly phases of the earth's orbit around the sun and showing the relative projections of sunlight, with two smaller diagrams. Co...
Place & Date: Paris, 1837
Selling price: $66
Sold in 2013
Tableau du Systeme Solaire.
An interesting celestial chart showing the movement of the planets including a comet's trajectory within its solar system.
Place & Date: Paris, 1838
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2013
Systeme Planetaire.
Several diagrams showing planetary relationships. Prepared by J. Andriveau-Goujon and included in his "Atlas Elémentaire simplifié".
Place & Date: Paris, E.Soulier, 1838
Selling price: $81
Sold in 2012
Uranographie.
Finely engraved Uranography plate with an armillary sphere in the center. Uranography is the branch of astronomy concerned with mapping the stars, galaxies, or other cele...
Place & Date: Paris, Jules Renouard, ca.1840
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2011
Set of six S.D.U.K celestial charts.
The complete set of six sequentially numbered steel engraved celestial charts, designed by W Clarke after W Newton, and engraved by John & Charles Walker; Published b...
Place & Date: London, 1844
Selling price: $460
Sold in 2020
Pair of 2 maps: CARTE CELESTE... & CARTE CELESTE MUETTE. . .
Very rare pair of large celestial charts, illustrating several hundreds of stars. Indicating the sizes of the stars, and names also constellations. Diameters of the globe...
Place & Date: Geneva, 1850
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2013
Der Nördliche Gestirnte Himmel Dargestellt von Dr. Frdn. Reuter.
Extremely rare celestial chart of the northern sky. Printed on four sheets. Stars are shown at five different magnitudes as explained in the legend. The stars of the grea...
Place & Date: Gotha, ca. 1850
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2017
Les Etoiles Fixes divisees en Constallations Boreales et Australes. . .
A highly detailed double hemisphere chart of the northern and southern skies, showing the various constellations, as catalogued by Sir Francis Baily, along with a third c...
Place & Date: Paris, 1850
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2019
Atlas designed to illustrate Burritt's Geography of the Heavens. . .
Star Atlas with 8 charts, partially hand-colored. By the beginning of the nineteenth century more than one hundred thousand stars had been discovered.The Atlas designed t...
Place & Date: Shendon, New York, 1856
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2013
![[2 maps] Der Nördliche Stern-Himmel & Der Südliche Stern-Himmel.](/uploads/cache/98113-250x250.jpg)
[2 maps] Der Nördliche Stern-Himmel & Der Südliche Stern-Himmel.
A pair of interesting celestial maps from Stieler's Hand-Atlas published by Justus Perthes.With a wealth of stars and signs of the zodiac shown. Surrounded by a calendar ...
Place & Date: Gota, 1859
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2017
Die sichtbare Seite der Mond-Oberfläche bei voller Beleuchtung.
Early edition of this detailed map of moon, with hundreds of named mountains and hills. After Beer and Mädler, drawn by Ausfeld. Published in Stieler's famous Hand-Atlas...
Place & Date: Gotha, c1860
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2014
Tableau d'uranographie..spheroidal Celeste,..
Very detailed double hemisphere celestial chart. In lower left and right corner insets of north and South Pole projections and in the middle planetary system according Co...
Place & Date: Paris, 1861
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2013
![[Map of the Moon] Die sichtbare Seite der Mond-Oberflache bei voller Beleuchtung Nach Beer u Madlers Karte .](/uploads/cache/43040-250x250.jpg)
[Map of the Moon] Die sichtbare Seite der Mond-Oberflache bei voller Beleuchtung Nach Beer u Madlers Karte .
Map of the Moon, based upon the work of Johann Heinrich von Mädler ( 1794 -1874) one of the most important German astronomer's of the late 19th Century.Mädler began giv...
Place & Date: Gotha, 1870
Selling price: $180
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Das Sonnensystem neu bearbeitet von Dr. Bruhns in Leipzig. Director der Sternwarte.
Decorative map of the solar system with insets of Saturn, Mars, Jupiter, the Sun and the moon. In upper right the comet Halley.The map is engraved by von Kern and publish...
Place & Date: Weimar, 1874
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2013
Planisphère Célèste.
Showing the southern and northern celestial hemispheres from Géographie Universelle, Atlas Migeon. Published by J. Migeon. From one of the last decorative atlases publis...
Place & Date: Paris, 1874
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2012
Carte Astronomique de L'Univers. . .
An educational wall map with a chart of the Solar System backed by the stars, printed in blue and black, surrounded with 17 diagrams and descriptive text in French, prepa...
Place & Date: Paris, 1875
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2013
Mappemonde céleste en deux hémisphères à l'usage des écoles normales primaires.
Double hemisphere celestial wall chart, prepared by A. Logerot. Surrounded by a armilary sphere according to the Copernic system, celestial globe, solar system, movement ...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1876
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2013
Constellations célestes des deux Hémisphères.
Celestial chart printed in 1876, published in Paris in "Atlas Universel" by Vivien de Saint Martin. Printed by Chardon aîné. Shows the northern and southern c...
Place & Date: Paris, Chardon aîné, 1876
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2020
Carte Astronomique de L'Univers.
A large, decorative and informative educational chart, illustrating and describing the solar system. The top half of the chart consists of the solar system with the 12 mo...
Place & Date: Paris ca 1877
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2022
Géographie astronomique. La terre - la lune - le soleil.
Very decorative plate showing the different positions of the earth during the year in relation to the sun. Showing the proportions of earth and moon, and moon and sun, da...
Place & Date: Paris, Hachette & Comp., 1878
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2013
Géographie astronomique - la Terre - la Lune - le Soleil.
Celestial chart published in Paris in 1878 in "Atlas Universel" by Vivien de Saint Martin. Printed by Chardon aîné. Shows the revolution of the Earth and the ...
Place & Date: Paris, Chardon aîné, 1878
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2020
![[ Set of 6 Star Maps ]](/uploads/cache/82691-250x250.jpg)
[ Set of 6 Star Maps ]
Set of six Star Maps by Thomas Letts including North Polar and South Polar.
Place & Date: London, 1881
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2019
The Seasons, The Earth and the Moon
An attractive engraving showing the Four seasons, and the Moon's attraction to the sun.
Place & Date: London, 1885
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2016
Circles & Diurnal Movements of the Celestial Sphere
An attractive celestial engraving showing various phases of the planets.
Place & Date: London, 1885
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2016
Charts of the Constellations, from the North Pole to between 35 & 40 Degrees of South Declination. Popular Edition, on a Reduced Scale With Three Additional key Maps and Introduction and Notes.
All 39 celestial charts are present plus the introduction of 32 pages. Published by Edward Stanford.Additional shipping costs apply due to weight of the book. Shipping to...
Place & Date: London, 1891
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2019
Globo Celeste Arabio del Sec XI.
A 19th Century image of globe gores of an Arabic Celestial Globe. The Globe in the Museo Galileo in Florence is believed to be the oldest Arabic celestial globe in the wo...
Place & Date: Florence, 1891
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020
Atlas international des nuages. International cloud-atlas. Internationaler wolken-atlas.
FIRST EDITION. Title in French, English and German. The first edition consisted of plates of color photographs, which was then a new technology."In 1874, the year of...
Place & Date: Paris, Gauthier-Villars et fils, 1896
Selling price: $2400
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(Thai manuscript describing the signs of the Zodiac)
Old sheet with manuscript on both sides, text and illustrations. With the characteristics of the year of the monkey.Unique and curious item!
Place & Date: undated, c1900
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2015
Face or Fortune Know Thy Self.
A most unusual item. A volvelle from Woodbury [Facial] Soap Face or Fortune - Know Thy Self with an astrological volvelle & dial on the reverse. Complete with 16 pp s...
Place & Date: New York ca 1900
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2022
![[Solar System with Ottoman script]](/uploads/cache/44324-250x250.jpg)
[Solar System with Ottoman script]
Post card size chart of the solar system in Ottoman script prepared by Mehmet EŞREF in a small atlas : عمومو&a...
Place & Date: Istanbul, 1325 or 1909
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2019
Der sternenhimmel, zu jeder stunde des jahres. Ausgabe für Mittel-Europa.
Finely executed volvelle with the stars and night view for every hour of the year. Text and explanation on verso. The instrument is made of black leather pasted on cardbo...
Place & Date: Dortmund, 1910
Selling price: $86
Sold in 2015
Pears' Star Chart of the Northern Hemisphere.
A charming Volvelle based on Pear's Cyclopedia and published by a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. Uncommon star chart of the Northern Hemisphere.
Place & Date: London, ca. 1913
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2019
Sterrenkaart voor Nederland door DR. E.A Kreiken.
Movable star chart prepared by Dr E.A. Kreiken (1896-1964) He has studied astronomy in Groningen 1923 and worked in Indonesia.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W. Versluys, ca. 1935
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2015
![Air France De jour et de nuit - De nuit et de jour, dans les ciels, nox post Lucem lux post noctem, principales lignes exploitées en 1938-1939. [Planisphère Zodiac Air France].](/uploads/cache/44010-250x250.jpg)
Air France De jour et de nuit - De nuit et de jour, dans les ciels, nox post Lucem lux post noctem, principales lignes exploitées en 1938-1939. [Planisphère Zodiac Air France].
This Stunning constellations planisphere is an iconic surrealist embodiment of the golden age of air travel by Lucian Boucher. Original lithograph advertising planisphere...
Place & Date: Imprimerie Perceval, Paris, 1938
Selling price: $1850
Sold in 2019
Modified Weir Azimuth Diagram.
British Admiralty Astronomical Chart 5001: Azimuth diagram - modified Weir.
Place & Date: London, 1950
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2019
![AIR France [Planisphère Air France Zodiac].](/uploads/cache/45885-250x250.jpg)
AIR France [Planisphère Air France Zodiac].
A double-hemisphere celestial map with the constellations of the zodiac in gold and the others in turquoise, set against a sky of navy blue, both with the major stars mar...
Place & Date: Imprimerie Perceval, Paris, 1953
Selling price: $1550
Sold in 2020
Hammond's guide to the exploration of space.
One of the great space posters of the late 1950's was the 1958 Hammond Space Map. Produced by the Hammond Map Company it has gorgeous paintings of the solar system, space...
Place & Date: New York, 1958
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2018
Hammond's guide to the exploration of space.
One of the great space posters of the late 1950's was the 1958 Hammond Space Map. Produced by the Hammond Map Company it has gorgeous paintings of the solar system, space...
Place & Date: New York, 1958
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2020
Engeneer special study of the surface of the moon LUNAR RAYS
1960 First Edition One of the earliest, rarest, and most displayable of such maps, considered a landmark in the history of moon mapping. This example is the first edition...
Place & Date: July, 1960
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2019
LIPTON Lunar Space Map
Promotional map of the expedition of the Apollo astronauts to make the July 20, 1969 lunar landing, illustrated by George J. Zaffo, produced for Lipton's Tea.Showing deta...
Place & Date: Thomas J. Lipton, Inc., ca. 1969
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2019