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A magnificent hand-colored engraved celestial plate from "the most elaborate atlas of stars and constellations published to date and perhaps the last great star atlas." - David Rumsey

Price: $2,200.00

Systema Solis ex Observationibus P. Kircheri

Attractive antique print showing an 18th-century conception of the sun. Apparently based on the observations Father Athanasius Kircher, a late 17th century Jesuit scholar with many interests, the print shows the sun with numerous dark clouds emanating from the outside. These are solar flares and surface eruptions, based on the observations of Kircher and Scheiner in 1635. Kircher's observations were originally published in his masterpiece, titled Mundus subterraneus (The Underground World).

Price: $345.00

Horologium Horizontale [Fig. 10 Cap II]

Attractive chart showing the viewer how to operate a sundial. Visible at the center of the map is a representation of the sun with a face and is surrounded by a representation of a sundial.

Price: $425.00

Phasis Lunae Adultae, observata Viennae Anno MDCXCVI Die 6 Nove intra 5 et 6 p [and] Phasis Lunae ad Oppositionem vergentis, observata Segedini Anno MDCXVI die 12 Iulii, hor 10 pomer.

Fine pair of images of the phases of the moon, which appeared in Luigi Marsigili's monumental Danubius Pannonico-Mysicus, published in 1726.

Price: $475.00

Description et Usages de la Mappemonde Projetee Sur L'Horizon de Paris [bound with:] Abrégé d'Astronomie pour l'usage des Planisphères [bound with:] Extrait de l'Abrégé d'Astronomie... Pour Servir d'Instruction Relativement a Deux Petits Planispheres.

A Presentation Copy From The Author

Price: $2,800.00

Aurora Borealis

An Excellent and Breathtaking Lithograph of an Aurora. Made by the "Audubon of the Sky", Etienne Trouvelot.

Price: $8,500.00