Diameter globe: 3 inch / 7.6 cm. – Total height: 5,12 inches / 13,5 cm. Comprising twelve hand-coloured gores, annotated with equinoctial graduated in degrees and hours and ecliptic graduated in days, prime meridian labelled Meridian of Greenwich and the principal land masses outlined in colour and annotated with major rivers and mountain ranges, the [...]

Novus Globus / COELESTIS / Auct. Et Edit. / GERH. Et LEONH. VALK / Amstelodami. Diameter globe: 3 inches / 7.6 cm. – Total height: 5,91 inches / 15 cm. A scarce and beautiful miniature celestial globe produced in Amsterdam by Gerard and Leonard Valk during the first quarter of the eighteenth century. A celestial [...]

Over de Voortteling en Wonderbaerlyke Veranderingen der Surinaamsche Insecten, waar in de Surinaamsche Rupsen en Wormen, met alle derzelver veranderingen, naar het leeven afgebeeldt, en beschreeven worden; zijnde elk geplaatst op dezelfde gewassen, bloemen, en vruchten, daar ze op gevonden zijn: beneffens de beschryving dier gewassen. Waar in ook de wonderbare Padden, Hagedissen, Slangen, Spinnen, [...]

Book of Hours / Latin
65.000,00 Categories: , , ,
1480-1490 - Paris
Nr. 12679

A tiny and complete Parisian Book of Hours with a plethora of intricate illuminations. 91 x 65mm (3.6 x 2.6in). 190 leaves on vellum, additional 4 paper leaves after (plus 3 paper endleaves at front and back) Complete, collation: 1-238, 246. Modern foliation in pencil at bottom right corners.14 lines, justified 54 x 38mm (2.1 [...]

A small terrestrial library globe, more than a hundred years old, with the known world in the middle of the 19th century. The globe is mounted in a calibrated brass meridian with an hour ring on the north pole and a wooden horizon ring with the houses of the zodiac, the months of the year, [...]

Johnston’s Eighteen-inch Terrestrial globe containing the latest Geographical Discoveries The globe is mounted in a calibrated brass meridian with an hour ring on the north pole and a wooden horizon ring with the houses of the zodiac, the months of the year, azimuth amplitude, and so on. The horizon ring is raised on four quadrant [...]

Biblia, dat is, de gantsche Heylige Schrifture, vervattende alle de Canonijcke Boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments. Door last der Hoogh- Mog. Heeren Staten Generael vande Vereenighde Nederlanden, en volgens het Besluyt vande Synode Nationael, gehouden tot Dordrecht, inde Jaren 1618 ende 1619. Uyt de Oorspronckelijcke talen in onse Nederlandtsche tale getrouwelijck over-geset. Met [...]

Sterre Kaert of Hemels Pleyn, waer door men kan wee hoe laet dat het is over de gehele aertkloot, op alle meridiane en polus hoogte en, opwat lengte en brete de voorsz sterre staen, bezuyde de liniae aequinoctiael. 63,5 x 53 cm. /  25 x 20,87 inches A most attractive Mercator style projection of the [...]

Ferdinand Bol
500.000,00 Categories: , , , ,
Amsterdam, ca. 1669 -
Nr. 12999

Dimensions: 105 x 84,5 cm Medium & Support: Oil on canvas Description: The composition of the painting offered here is derived from five almost identical portraits of De Ruyter, that were painted by Ferdinand Bol and his workshop in 1667. De Ruyter is depicted in an admiral’s uniform, holding a baton in his right hand [...]

Cruchley’s new terrestrial globe from the most recent and best authorities, exhibiting the discoveries in equatorial Africa, the North Pole, and the new settlements and divisions in Australia, New Zealand, California, Texas &, etc.WITH: Cruchley’s new celestial globe on which is accurately laid down the whole of the stars and nebulae contained in the astronomical [...]

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The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Iesus Christ. New translated out of Original Greeke. WITH: The whole book of Psalms Two works in one volume, n.p., 330 (6) p. Contemporary dos-á-dos embroidered binding, 12°.       H. 103 x W. 54 mm  /  4 x 2.1 inches. Extremely rare and early dos-á-dos miniature [...]

Diameter globe: 3 inch / 7.6 cm. – In its stand: 6.3 inches / 16 cm. This delightful pocket (or miniature) globe has a delightful aged patina that is normal and entirely consistent with a globe of this age. The globe is in very good overall condition, there are a few minor flaws and blemishes [...]