Ptolemaeus Claudius

Sacro Bosco by Fra Mauro: Sphera Volgare Novamente Tradotta, con molte notande additioni di geometria, cosmographia, arte navicatoria

facsimile of the 1539 and 1572 map

Petri Apiani and Gemma Frisius: Cosmopraphia, per Gemmam Phrysius, apud Louanienses Medicum ac Mathematicum insignem,Denuo restituta. Additis de eadem re ipsius Gemma Phry. Libellis, quos sequens pagina docet. MD XL

Gemmae Phrsysii Medici ac Mathematici

Woodblock map of Scandinavia with latitude and Longitude coordinates.

Coignet Michiel, De Zeevaert oft Conste van ter Zee te varen + Nieuwe onderwijsinge op de principaelste puncten der Zeevaert. Very rare first edition of this important work for the navigation in the Low Countries

Italian print of the sieg of Antwerp

1591 Phls Galle Engraving: Lapis Polaris Magnes. From Nova repertes illustrating the invention of the Compass

Circa 1592 engraving “Christophorus Columbus Ligur…”, by Adriaen Collaert (1560-1618) after Stradanus. Antwerp

Jan Huyghen van Linschoten Navigatio ac Itinerarium ... in Orientalem sive Lusitanorum Indiam
First Latin edition of 1599

circa 1605 Two Prints by Jan Van der Straer or Stradanus: 'Astrolabium. Americus Vespuccius. cum quattuor Stellis crucem silente nocte repperit'

Sacro Bosco by Christophorus Calvius

Pedro de Medina: The first navigation book describing the compass and astrolabe

Jan Vanden Brouck

First and colloured edition of the discovery of Cape Hoorn and the Lemaire Street: Journael ofte Bechryvinghe van de Wonderlijcke reyse ghedaen door Willem Cornelisz Schouten van Hoorn inde Jaren 1615, 1616; 1617

Willem Jantz. ( = Willem Blaeu): Oost ende West-Indische spiegel der 2 leste navigatien, ghedaen inden jaeren 1614.15.16.17 ende 18

Frontpiece of the Mercator Hondius Atlas

De Decker Ezechiel

from:Newe Welt und Americanische Historien

Adrianus Metius

First edition of Lansbergen's important astronomical tables. Lansbergen could not, however, accept Johannes Kepler's elliptical orbits, upon which Kepler had based his own 'Rudolphine Tables' published five years earlier.

Discovery of the Longitudes method by Petrus Plancius from 'Nova Reperta

Varenius Berhardus, first edition

The theory of navigation by Abraham de Graef pinted by Pieter Goos

Fourth edition of this rare and important work on the Art of Navigation

A mariner’s guide. It is the first that provided practical help in all types of trigonometry and navigation. It is divided into three books. The first deals with plane trigonometry, the second with spherical trigonometry , the third with navigation.

Circumnavigation by William Dampier, first Dutch edition

Nicolas Aubin, Dictionaire de marine contenant les termes de la navigation et de l'architecture navale.
1702

Important French work on navigation by Jean Bouguer

first edition publication of the Act in 1714

Large map shows many different nautical instruments used in navigation, ship types, and ship building:
'Nouvelle carte pour conduire à la connoissance de la marine et à demontrer la plus part des instruments'.

Later edition of the Act of Longitude

First edition of important French book on navigation by Pierre Bouguer (1698-1758)

Pilot Guide of René Bougard

Work on the art of navigation by the Dutch mathematician Klaas Hendriksz. Gietermaker (1621-1699)

First edition of this treatise on piloting, illustrated with 12 folding plates; by Alexandre Savérien (1720-1805),
a naval engineer.

Navigation, Astronomical navigational instruments, Signed: Prevost Fecit, Pl. 1, Denis Diderot; M. d'Alembert: Astrolabe, Backstaff, Cross-Staff, Nocturnal and Compass
Copperprint of Navigational instruments, Prevost fecit.

William Dampier uit 'Nieuwe Reystogt Rondom de Weereldt'. He was first to correctly disribe the winds and currens in the Pacific Ocean.

Pingré, Alexandre Guy

Pierre Bouguer, Nouveau traité de navigation. contenant la théorie et la pratique du pilotage [...] Revu & abrégé par M. l'abbé de La Caille de la même Académie Royale des Sciences. &c. Avec figures en taille-douce

Story of the travel by George Anson around the world.
' Reize rondsom de werreld, gedaan in de jaaren 1740-1744'.
3de editie Dutch, 1765

The first nautical almanac to contain data dedicated to the convenient determination of longitude at sea.
It was the first to include tabulation of lunar distances as a tool to facilitate the determination of longitude at sea. By Nevil Maskelyne

A voyage around the world to explore the South Seas by John Byron

Two important navigational books bound together: The seaman's daily assistant and
A New sett of logarithmic solar tables, calculated and constructed for determining the latitude at sea. London

Tobias Mayer's tables for the lunar distance edited by the Britisch admiralty and Nevil MaskelyneAct

Rare second, corrected and enlarged edition (first 1762) by the mathematician and instrument maker B. Martin (1704-1782)

Leçons de Navigation , Dulague, Rouen 1775. French book on Navigation with 6 folding plates and the declination solar tables from 1776 till 1796

Handcoloured copperprint . Engraved for the New Geographical
Copperprint ‘ The Name Of System’
Print (Engraving) of Armillary Sphere and Planetary Systems, by R. W. Seale, for the New Geographical Dictionary, Late 18th Century

First French editions, 16 volumes of which one atlas

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Manuscript Navigation course by a student. A Journal of a Voyage... In the Henry of Whitby... A.B. Commander... Kept by J. Breckon... November 17th 1791"

I. A full and comprehensive view of the general principles of Astronomy.
II. The use of the celestial and terrestrial globes
III. The description [...] of [...] planetarium, tellurian
3th edition

4 volumes: 2de editie. For Atlas 1 st edition : see Atlasses

a nautical almanac pubiced in the sixt years after the start of the French republique: 1797

Avec desription du compas trigonométrique de Richer. An VI, 1798, fist edition

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Book by David Thomas to explane his Lunar corrector ruler.
'For new and concise methods of performing the calculations necessary for ascertaining the Longitude by Lunar Observations'

23 ste edition , in Wooden box

Maritime Conference held at Brussels for devising an uniform system of meteorological observations at sea, August and September 1853

With pictures of Octant and Sextant

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A book about the 'estimated navigation'. Written by the captain of the 'Belgica' before its exploration into Antarctica, leaded by De Gerlache.

An important work of Tycho Brahe published in 1598, about his instruments used at his observatory on the island Ven. Facsimile reproduction of 1901

Second edition of the expedition of De Gerlache into the Antarctic.

1ste edition of the Belgica expedition with the first scientific hibernation on the Antarctic by the Belgian explorer De Gerlache and his team.

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Au Pays des Manchots, Récit du Voyage de la ‘Belgica’ par Georges Lecointe
1ste édition, 1904

A rare, large and beautiful illustrated book about the compass and the different windroses

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facsimile from 1915 of this important work about the suns declination, dating from 1473

Personel study of Gaston Wijns. Ontwikkelgelatinezilverdruk (OGZ) - Ongesigneerd

Résultats du Voyage de la Belgica en 1897-99, Sous le commandement de
A. De Gerlache de Gomery, Rapport Scientifiques; Anvers 1938

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