Striking celestial chart, showing the selenographic phases of the moon, from Cellarius' Harmonia Macrocosmica seu Atlas Universalis et Novus. Andreas Cellarius Harmonia Macrocosmica (first published in 1660) is generally regarded as one of the most...
Decorative engraving of a pair of globes, one celestial, one terrestrial, engraved for Jacques Chiquet's Le Nouveau et Curieux Atlas Geographique et Historique. The Globes are surrounded by scientific models showing various perspectives on the...
Rare Eclipse Map of the 1715 Solar Eclipse by Polymath William Whiston Important early astronomical broadside, prepared by William Whiston (1667-1752), a prominent and prolific English theologian and mathematician, of the first solar eclipse to be...
Edmund Halley's Controversial Star Chart, Drawn From the Observations of John Flamsteed Nice example of this important early 2 sheet chart of the Zodiac, first published by John Senex in London in 1718. John Senex was one of the first English...
Decorative work showing a double hemisphere Celestial model, Double Hemisphere map of the world w/California as an Island, Armillary Sphere, Copernican Ptolomaic and Tycho Brahe models of the Solar System and a number of other Celestial and Solar...
Rare separately published double hemisphere celestial map, first published in Amsterdam by Frederick De Wit in 1680, and here reissued by Covens & Mortier in 1721. An exceptionally decorative, oversized, very rare celestial chart, produced by...
Scarce decorative celestial map by Melchior Rein, published In 1728. The map is drawn from an the work of Georg Christoph Einmarkt, first published circa 1707. In this rare variant, Rein is credited as engraver under the lower center diagram....
Decorative large format map of the constellations, showing Sagittarius, with Capricornius Antinous, Serpens, Ophiuchus, Aquila and part of Scorpius, from Flamsteed's rare celestial atlas. Flamsteed was the first Astronomer Royal at the London...
Nice example of Johanne Doppelmayr's map of the Southern Skies, with the constellations shown and the various stars illustrated in gold. Dopplemayr's decorative celestial chart illustrates that the southern sky forms the south ecliptic pole to...
Doppelmayr's Chart of the Northern Celestial Hemisphere A very fine 18th-century chart of the stars visible from the Northern Hemisphere, by the eminent astronomer Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr This large and attractive chart depicts all of the celestial...
Dopplemayr's Gnomonic Project of the Fixed Stars This is the fifth chart in a series of six depicting part of the night sky on a gnomonic projection with 'the fixed stars for the end of the year of Christ 1730 'according to the rules of arithmetic...
Dopplemayr's Gnomonic Project of the Fixed Stars. This is the fifth chart in a series of six depicting part of the night sky on a gnomonic projection with 'the fixed stars for the end of the year of Christ 1730 'according to the rules of arithmetic...
Dopplemayr's Gnomonic Project of the Fixed Stars This is the fourth chart in a series of six depicting part of the night sky on a gnomonic projection with 'the fixed stars for the end of the year of Christ 1730 'according to the rules of arithmetic...
Dopplemayr's Gnomonic Project of the Fixed Stars. This is the third chart in a series of six depicting part of the night sky on a gnomonic projection with 'the fixed stars for the end of the year of Christ 1730 'according to the rules of arithmetic...
Dopplemayr's Gnomonic Project of the Fixed Stars This is the second chart in a series of six depicting part of the night sky on a gnomonic projection with 'the fixed stars for the end of the year of Christ 1730 'according to the rules of arithmetic...
Dopplemayr's Gnomonic Project of the Fixed Stars. This is the first chart in a series of six depicting part of the night sky on a gnomonic projection with 'the fixed stars for the end of the year of Christ 1730 'according to the rules of arithmetic...
