![[ Canis Minor ]](/map/small/70696.jpg)
Striking full color example of Bayer's celestial chart of the constellation Canis Minor. The map includes early hand written annotations in the margins, naming the surrounding constellations and other details. Bayer's Uranometria, is one of the most...
![[ Corona Borealis ]](/map/small/70742.jpg)
Fine example of Bayer's celestial chart of Corona Borealis. Corona Borealis is a small constellation in the northern sky. Its name is Latin for "northern crown", a name inspired by its shape; its main stars form a semicircular arc. It was one of the...
![[ Orion ]](/map/small/70760.jpg)
Fine example of Bayer's map of the constellation Orion, one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, which remains one of the 88 modern constellations defined by the International Astronomical Union. The map includes...
![[Perseus]](/map/small/70819.jpg)
Perseus is a constellation in the northern sky, named after the Greek hero Perseus. It was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 1st century astronomer Ptolemy and remains one of the 88 modern constellations defined by the International...
![[ Serpens ]](/map/small/70872.jpg)
Fine example of Bayer's map of the Constellation Serpens, one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, which remains one of the 88 modern constellations defined by the International Astronomical Union. The plate was...
![[Synopsis Coeli Superioris] and [Synopsis Coeli Inferioris Austrina]](/map/small/70919.jpg)
Very nice example of Bayer's northern and southern celestial hemispheres Bayer's Uranomatria...
Including Portraits of Tycho Brahe and Frederic Houtman Rare pair of celestial hemispheres, showing the northern and southern skies, published by Pierre Mariette. At the top center is an explanation that the the northern sky is mapped based on the...
![[Celestial Chart of Southern Hemisphere with Horoscope and Astrological Information, Printed in Mirror Image]](/map/small/53808.jpg)
Unrecorded Southern Hemisphere Celestial Chart in Mirror Image -- Including Astrological Models and a Horoscope Model Fine, unrecorded map of the constellations of the Southern Hemisphere, published in Paris by Antoine De Fer. The map includes...
Fine old color example of this striking chart of the Northern Sky, illustrating the constellations of the Southern Hemisphere superimposed over the earth's Southern Hemisphere, from the 1708 Valk & Schenk edition of Andreas Cellarius's Harmonia...
Very nice example of this striking chart of the Northern Sky, illustrating the constellations of the Northern Hemisphere superimposed over the earth's Southern Hemisphere, from Andreas Cellarius's Harmonia Macrocosmica, first published in 1660. The...
Striking example of this celestial chart illustration of Claudius Ptolemy's model of the Universe, a model of the solar system with the earth at the center, from the 1708 Valk & Schenk edition of Andreas Cellarius's Harmonia Macrocosmica seu Atlas...
Fine example of this celestial chart illustrating the Sun's orbit around the Earth, from the 1708 Valk & Schenk edition of Andreas Cellarius' Harmonia Macrocosmica. Cellariu's chart illustrates the Ptolemaic theory of the Sun's orbit around the...
Finely engraved celestial map showing Claudius Ptolemy's model of the Lunar Cycles, from the 1708 Valk & Schenk edition of Andreas Cellarius' Harmonia Macrocosmica. Striking celestial chart illustrating the Ptolemaic model of lunar motion. The...
Fine example of Cellarius's chart illustrating the Theory of Epicycles, which supported Claudius Ptolemy's earth-centered model of the universe, from the Valk & Schenk edition of Andreas Cellarius' Harmonia Macrocosmica. In this chart, Cellarius...
Finely executed celestial chart illustrating the motions of both the upright sphere (the equatorial co-ordinate system) and the oblique sphere (the ecliptic co-ordinate system); the celestial and terrestrial longitudes; and the influences of the stars,...
Exceptional Original Color A fine old color example of this striking map of the Southern Sky, illustrating the constellations of the Southern Hemisphere superimposed over the earth's Southern Hemisphere, first published by Andreas Cellarius in 1660....
