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...
Nice example of Doppelmayr's map illustrating various lunar and celestial theories. The images shown include: Tycho Brahe's model for lunar orbit Illustrations of the surface of the moon from October 1664 Flamsteed's model Hevelius's model...
Rare Eclipse Broadside by Thomas Wright and Published by John Senex, the Foremost Producer of Astronomical Broadsides in the Eighteenth Century Fine, large broadside illustrating a prediction of the path of the solar eclipse of February 18, 1737. It...
An interesting set of diagrams describing the basic ways in which the globe and the solar system are described. The image illustrates the basic methods of modeling the equator, the two Tropics, the Poles, the horizon and other features of a sphere....
Elaborate celestial model, published in Nuremberg by Doppelmayr. This chart illustrates the satellite systems of Jupiter and Saturn, contrasted with the Earth-Moon system according to the observations of Giovanni Domenico Cassini in Bologna in 1661.
Fine pair of celestial models illustrating the bright comet which transited the sky in March and April of 1742. On the right is an image of the Celestial Sky, illustrating the various constellations visible in the sky at the time of the transit of the...
