An Italian paper and pasteboard Ptolemaic armillary sphere
Mid 18th century, Venice
A terrestrial globe made of ten gores, inscripted In Venezia appresso Bonvecchiato Libraio in merceria a San Bortolameo
25.5 cm. diam.
Together with a late 18th Century Venetian card-bodied, vellum and horn-mounted four-draw telescope, inscribed Leonardo Semitecolo - 30 cm. (folded) (2)
An Italian paper and pasteboard Ptolemaic armillary sphere
Mid 18th century, Venice
A terrestrial globe made of ten gores, inscripted In Venezia appresso Bonvecchiato Libraio in merceria a San Bortolameo
25.5 cm. diam.
Together with a late 18th Century Venetian card-bodied, vellum and horn-mounted four-draw telescope, inscribed Leonardo Semitecolo - 30 cm. (folded) (2)
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