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Phaenomena Motuum Irregularium quos Planetae inferiores Venus et Mercurius ad annum Salutis MDCCX

Decorative engraved celestial map by Doppelmayr showing the motion of the planets Mercury and Venus during the year 1710. A detailed illustration on the chart shows a league of horses pulling a chariot whose wheels are the rotating earth. This rotates around a central sun figure, alongside the representations of Mercury and Venus as their respective Roman gods.

Price: $ 450.00

Hemisphaerium Coeli Australe in quo Fixarum loca secundum Eclipticae ductum ad anum 1730 . . .

Nice example of Johanne Doppelmayr's map of the Southern Skies, with the constellations shown and the various stars illustrated in gold.

Price: $ 1,600.00

Theoria Veneris Et Mercurii

Finely executed celestial model showing the movements of Venus and Mercury, demonstrating how the Tychonic geoheliocentric view works. This attractive copperplate engraving originally appeared in Andreas Cellarius's Harmonia Macrocosmica.

Price: $ 875.00

Motus Cometarum In Hemisphaerium Australi qui intra añum 1530 et 1740 cum duabus Stellis novis, nostra tempore visis, a celeberrimis Astronomis observati, geometrice nunc descripti . . .

Detailed map of path of various comets through the Southern Sky between 1530 and 1740 by Doppelmayr and published by Johann Baptiste Homann.

Price: $ 1,400.00

Planisferio Celeste Meridionale Tagliato Sull' Equatore

This is a star-chart depicting the constellations and features of the northern sky, by the Italian cartographer Antonio Zatta. Dozens of constellations are shown, and hundreds of stars have their brightness indicated. The chart is framed by elegant depictions of some of the most important observatories of Europe, including Greenwich, Copenhagen (Christian IV's version), Paris, and Cassel (Kassel). Along the roofs of the observatories, astronomers use various instruments to complete their work.

Price: $ 495.00

[ Lupus and Centaurus ] (Stars Heightened in Gold)

Striking full color example of Bayer's celestial chart of Lupus (the Wolf) with Centaurus, with the stars heightened in gold.

Price: $ 1,200.00