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[Auriga]

Fine example of Johann Bayer's map of the constellation Auriga, with stars heightened in Gold and manuscript annotations noting neighboring constellations and the names of stars.

Price: $ 1,100.00

(Ptolemaic Universe) Planisphaerium Ptolemaicum, Sive Machina Orbium Mundi Ex Hypothesi Ptolemaica In Planno Disposita

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 1661 edition of Andreas Cellarius's Harmonia Macrocosmica seu Atlas Universalis et Novus.

Price: $ 4,500.00

X. Pegasus, Equleus, Delphinus. . .

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: $ 2,500.00

Cosmographie Generale

This finely detailed 19th-century French map, entitled "Cosmographie Générale," presents a comprehensive visual synthesis of contemporary celestial knowledge.  The image meticulously displays various heliocentric models, elucidating the orbital mechanics of the planets and their moons, the terrestrial phenomena of seasons, solar and lunar eclipses, as well as the lunar phases, with each astronomical concept thoughtfully placed within its own quadrant surrounding the central diagram.

Price: $ 195.00

Piscis notius (The Southern Fish)

"One of the Unsung Treasures of Celestial Cartography"

Price: $ 345.00

Scenographia Systematis Copernicani

Fine old color example of Cellarius's chart illustrating a heliocentric model of the universe, as proposed by the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, in the first half of the 16th century.

Price: $ 8,500.00