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Map of the Western Hemisphere by Bonne - Engraving - 18th Century
Located in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant
. Decorative 16 point compass rose.
Description: Atlas encyclopedique, contenant la geographie ancienne et
Category
1780s Contemporary Antique Compasses
Materials
Engraving
Pascaert Van de Kust van Maroca beginnende van Larache tot aan C. Cantin.
By Johannes van Keulen
Located in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant
map has a very decorative cartouche with scale bars and five mythological figures, compass rose and
Category
Early 18th Century Antique Compasses
Materials
Engraving
Pair of George III Terrestrial and Celestial Table Globes
By Cary’s
Located in New York, NY
stretcher centered by a compass. The terrestrial globe is inscribed 'CARY's NEW TERRESTRIAL GLOBE DELINEATED
Category
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Compasses
Materials
Brass
Early 19th Century Large "Versailles" Model Gilt Bronze Crater Vase, Jardiniere
Located in Brussels, BE
presents in the medallion a compass and a wreath of oak and laurel,
republican symbols borrowed to
Category
Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Compasses
Materials
Bronze
To the Honble. Sr. Iohn Lowther.
By Captain Greenvile Collins
Located in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant
recognition profiles in the lower right. With decorative cartouche, compass rose, soundings and rhumb lines
Category
Late 17th Century Antique Compasses
Materials
Engraving
Pair of Masonic Order Plaques Shaped like Classical Columns English circa 1910
Located in Houston, TX
features a compass spread to its full width laid over an inverted square rule. These tools from the
Category
Early 20th Century English Neoclassical Revival Antique Compasses
Materials
Wood
A New Generall Chart of the Coast of ye Northern Ocean Vitz Norway, [...].
By Herman Moll
Located in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant
details the region around Archangelsk (with depth soundings). Two compass roses and rhumb lines
Category
Late 17th Century Antique Compasses
Materials
Engraving
![Antique A New Generall Chart of the Coast of ye Northern Ocean Vitz Norway, [...].](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/archivesE/upload/a_5923/1509446148660/IMG_0333_2_master.jpg?width=240 "Herman Moll - A New Generall Chart of the Coast of ye Northern Ocean Vitz Norway, [...].")
Carte des Principaux Ports des Isles Orcades […].
By Captain Greenvile Collins
Located in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant
; five island profiles. With depth soundings, currents, rhumb lines and a compass rose.
Engraving
Category
Late 17th Century Antique Compasses
Materials
Engraving
![Antique Carte des Principaux Ports des Isles Orcades […].](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/archivesE/upload/a_5923/1509103494843/IMG_0321_2_master.jpg?width=240 "Captain Greenvile Collins - Carte des Principaux Ports des Isles Orcades […].")
Tabula Magellanica qua Tierrae del Fuego.
By Johannes Janssonius
Located in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant
, Tierra del Fuego. Isla de los Estados (Staten Island) is also shown. The map features two compass roses
Category
1640s Antique Compasses
Materials
Engraving
Island Ambon and Timor, Maluku Islands by Valentijn - Engraving - 18th Century
Located in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant
an inset of castle Victoria. Includes compass rose, scale and rhumb lines.
Description: From the
Category
1720s Contemporary Antique Compasses
Materials
Engraving
Map of Ambelau and Buru, Maluku Islands by Valentijn - Engraving - 18th Century
Located in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant
lake on the Buru mountains. Includes compass rose and scale.
Description: From the monumental work
Category
1720s Contemporary Antique Compasses
Materials
Engraving
Ambon, Maluku Islands and Boero by Valentijn - Engraving - 18th Century
Located in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant
and Boero, Indonesia. With compass rose, scale and rhumb lines.
Description: From the monumental
Category
1720s Contemporary Antique Compasses
Materials
Engraving
Antique Engraving of Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Framed
By George Louis Le Rouge
Located in Pataskala, OH
additional representations: of the points of the compass, a solar eclipse, lunar eclipse, and the relative
Category
1760s French Louis XVI Antique Compasses
Navigational chart of the river Suratte by Valentijn - Engraving - 18th Century
Located in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant
what is now India, in the modern state of Gujarat, lying on the river Tapti. With compass rose, scale
Category
1720s Contemporary Antique Compasses
Materials
Engraving
19th Century Brass Theodolite by S.P.Cohen, Glasgow
By S.P. Cohen, Glasgow
Located in Norwich, Norfolk
supports mounted on a vernier plate with silvered compass level and cross levels. 0 to 30 degrees
Category
1840s Great Britain (UK) Other Antique Compasses
Materials
Brass
Neoclassic table-lamp
Located in Brussels
Antwerp, BE
geographer’s attributes: a telescope, a compass, a globe and books.
H. of the total column 56,60 cm (22.28
Category
19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Compasses
Materials
Ormolu
$2,000
Paskaerte van
t in comen Van
t Canaal, hoemen dat sal aen doen, [...].
By Pieter Goos
Located in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant
putti. Two compass roses, rhumb lines and two ships depicted on the sea.
Engraving on hand laid paper
Category
17th Century Antique Compasses
Materials
Engraving
![Antique Paskaerte van
t in comen Van
t Canaal, hoemen dat sal aen doen, [...].](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/archivesE/upload/a_5923/1509450560082/IMG_0305_2_master.jpg?width=240 "datsal")
Carte d
une Partie de l
Amerique Septentrionale
By Francois Soules
Located in Florham Park, NJ
(BELOW NOTA). 4 POINTED COMPASS ROSE (TOP LEFT CORNER). LONGITUDE AND LATITUDE (NOT SHOWN
Category
18th Century and Earlier Academic Antique Compasses
Materials
Engraving
19th Century English Globe by Renowned Cartographers John Newton and Son
By Newton and Son
Located in London, GB
also one of the few firms to combine instruments with globes. In this globe, the compass is set in the
Category
19th Century English Antique Compasses
Materials
Hardwood
Milford Hauen and the Islands Adjacent [...].
By Captain Greenvile Collins
Located in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant
with birds, rhumb lines, a compass rose and depth soundings.
Engraving on hand laid paper.
Greenville
Category
Late 17th Century Antique Compasses
Materials
Engraving
![Antique Milford Hauen and the Islands Adjacent [...].](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/archivesE/upload/a_5923/1509448115412/IMG_0317_2_master.jpg?width=240 "Captain Greenvile Collins - Milford Hauen and the Islands Adjacent [...].")
A Large Draught of the Coast of Arabia from Maculla to Dofar.
By Sutton Nicholls
Located in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant
Governate, with Salalah, Oman). The map is in two parts, split with a decorative scroll. Two compass roses
Category
Early 18th Century Antique Compasses
Materials
Engraving
Exceptional 19th Century English Industrial Novelty Compendium Clock
By Bennett of London
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
aneroid barometer with signed silvered dial; to the right a 'Singer's Patent compass, the centre portion
Category
19th Century British Victorian Antique Compasses
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
John Senex Pair of Terrestrial and Celestial Globes
By John Senex
Located in New York, NY
, and horizontal ring printed with zodiac, calender scales and compass directions. The celestial globe
Category
18th Century and Earlier English Antique Compasses
Materials
Wood, Papier Mâché, Paper
$190,000 / set
18th Century Sundial and Plinth
Located in Kent, GB
with the engraved numerals and compass bearings having been filled with a white wax, which produces an
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Compasses
$8,900 / set
Pair of American Globes on Cast Iron Stands
Located in London, Middlesex
, and thirty two compass points, houses of the zodiac, days of the week and months; Loring's/ Celestial
Category
1830s American American Classical Antique Compasses
Materials
Iron
$75,309 / set
Dominique Mahlknecht (1793-1876) The french philosopher René Descartes
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
sphere instead of a compass.
Guillaume Bonnet (1820-1873) presented a plaster bust at the Salon of 1849
Category
1840s French School Antique Compasses
Materials
Plaster
18th Century Sundial
Plinth
Located in Kent, GB
with the engraved numerals and compass bearings having been filled with a white wax, which produces an
Category
18th Century and Earlier English Antique Compasses
Petit Neptune Anglois ou Carte Marine des Cotes d
Angleterre, [...].
By Jean Lattre
Located in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant
as hand coloring, elaborate decorative cartouches, and compass roses. While mostly focusing on
Category
1780s Antique Compasses
Materials
Engraving
![Antique Petit Neptune Anglois ou Carte Marine des Cotes d
Angleterre, [...].](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/archivesE/upload/a_5923/1508754384835/IMG_0099_2_master.jpg?width=240 "angleterre carte")
Ganer Square Piano c1780
By Christopher Ganer
Located in London, GB
the damper lift and 1 for the harp stop.
5 octave compass F to F
Christopher Ganer was born in
Category
18th Century and Earlier English Antique Compasses
Materials
Wood
$23,907
Marine Chronometer by Dobbie McInnes. No. 10031
Located in Norwich, Norfolk
who made engine speed indicators. They began making speed indicators and then compasses, theodolites
Category
1850s Great Britain (UK) Other Antique Compasses
Materials
Brass
Antique Marine Chronometer by Dobbie McInnis, Glasgow, circa 1920
Located in Norwich, Norfolk
clever engineer who made engine speed indicators. They began making speed indicators and then compasses
Category
1920s English Other Antique Compasses
Materials
Wood
Set of Terrestrial and Celestial Globes
By Cary
Located in Houston, TX
by four mahogany arms rising out of a mahogany tripod stand with a compass mounted with struts 'twixt
Category
Early 19th Century English Other Antique Compasses
Rare Masonic George III Giltwood and Gesso Wall Mirror
Located in Werkendam, NL
mirrorframe embellished with masonic symbols such as plummet, square and compasses.
Measurements: please
Category
Early 19th Century British George III Antique Compasses
Materials
Gesso, Mirror, Wood
Pair of Cary
s Terrestrial and Celestial Globes
By John
William Cary
Located in New York, NY
terminating in pad feet, joined by a stretcher and centered by a compass. Terrestrial globe inscribed, Cary’s
Category
1820s English George IV Antique Compasses
Materials
Mahogany
$65,000 / set
Typus Aspectuum.... (Astrological Planetary Aspects)
By Andreas Cellarius
Located in Florham Park, NJ
through the use of imagination as well as fact. Note the whimsical cherubs bearing transits and compasses
Category
18th Century and Earlier Academic Antique Compasses
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor
Map of Hell Gate and East River, New York City
Located in New York, NY
compass on the map's upper right.
The map's real focus is the river. The passage between Blackwell's
Category
1880s Realist Antique Compasses
Materials
Lithograph
Ptolemaic map of Asia east of the river Ganges by Mercator - Engraving - 17th c.
By Gerard Mercator
Located in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant
, compass rose and several sailing ships. On land are Bactrian camels, nomads, and well-engraved elephants
Category
1690s Old Masters Antique Compasses
Materials
Engraving
18th Dynasty Limestone Lid from a Canopic Jar Depicting Imsety
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
charged with protecting the three other cardinal points of the compass, respectively.
References
Category
15th Century and Earlier Egyptian Egyptian Antique Compasses
Materials
Limestone
Ptolemaic map of NW Africa, Morocco and Algeria by Mercator - Engraving - 17th c
By Gerard Mercator
Located in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant
the Straits of Gibraltar and is decorated with two sailing ships, compass rose and a fine strapwork
Category
1690s Old Masters Antique Compasses
Materials
Engraving
Un soir dans les C
evennes
By Jacques Alfred Brielman
Located in New Orleans, LA
smaller compass. The advancing evening light underscores the harmonious atmosphere and serene realism of
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Compasses
Materials
Oil Pastel, Oil
Atlas Coelestis Harmonia (Celestial Atlas)
By Andreas Cellarius
Located in Florham Park, NJ
the use of imagination as well as fact. Note the whimsical cherubs bearing transits and compasses as
Category
18th Century and Earlier Academic Antique Compasses
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor
Tycho Brahe Calculus
By Andreas Cellarius
Located in Florham Park, NJ
the use of imagination as well as fact. Note the whimsical cherubs bearing transits and compasses as
Category
18th Century and Earlier Academic Antique Compasses
Materials
Engraving
Sea chart of Galway Bay and Limerick river in Ireland - Engraving - 18th century
By Alexis Hubert Jaillot
Located in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant
scales, rhumb lines with three decorative compass roses.
Description: From: 'La Neptune Francois
Category
1690s Old Masters Antique Compasses
Materials
Engraving
Carte de l
entree de la Tamise avec les bancs, passes, isles et costes [...].
By Alexis Hubert Jaillot
Located in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant
compass roses.
Engraving on handlaid (verge type) paper. Watermark: Eagle with lettering.
From: 'La
Category
Late 17th Century Antique Compasses
Materials
Engraving
![Antique Carte de l
entree de la Tamise avec les bancs, passes, isles et costes [...].](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/archivesE/upload/a_5923/1508836574945/cb3808_master.jpg?width=240 "Alexis Hubert Jaillot - Carte de l
entree de la Tamise avec les bancs, passes, isles et costes [...].")
Carte De La Mer De Dannemark Et Des Entrees Dans La Mer Baltique [...].
By Alexis Hubert Jaillot
Located in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant
It includes 3 distance scales, rhumb lines with one and a half compass roses (north to the left) and
Category
Late 17th Century Antique Compasses
Materials
Engraving
![Antique Carte De La Mer De Dannemark Et Des Entrees Dans La Mer Baltique [...].](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/archivesE/upload/a_5923/1508836131958/cb3807_master.jpg?width=240 "mer baltique carte")
Carte generale des costes de l
Europe sur l
ocean [...].
By Alexis Hubert Jaillot
Located in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant
scales, rhumb lines with two decorative compass roses.
Engraving on handlaid (verge type) paper.
From
Category
Late 17th Century Antique Compasses
Materials
Engraving
![Antique Carte generale des costes de l
Europe sur l
ocean [...].](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/archivesE/upload/a_5923/1508837429054/cb3798_master.jpg?width=240 "hubert jaillot")
Dutch Masonic Marble-Top Illustration or Print Cabinet, Signed
By H.F. Jansen
Located in Werkendam, NL
ornamented carvings on the door panels you will among others detect the masonic symbols: a pair of compasses
Category
Early 20th Century Dutch Louis XVI Antique Compasses
Materials
Marble
Ancient World
By Andreas Cellarius
Located in Florham Park, NJ
as well as fact. Note the whimsical cherubs bearing transits and compasses as they float in the
Category
18th Century and Earlier Antique Compasses
$4,200
Fontaine de l
Observatoire dans le Jardin de Marco Polo in Paris
By Ulisse Caputo
Located in Wien, AT
the compass holding a celestial sphere over their heads, but Carpeaux was dissatisfied with the
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Antique Compasses
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rare 18th Century Masonic Painting "Freemasonry a Secret Unveiled"
By Jan Punt
Located in Werkendam, NL
architecture, the different styles of building; with the aid of a drawing board, compasses, a square and a 24
Category
1760s Dutch Baroque Antique Compasses
Materials
Linen
19th Century Jamaican Regency Yucca Tray Table with Exotic Specimen Compass
Located in Charleston, SC
tray top with compass shaped exotic wood specimen inlay and finely turned spooled rolling pin handles.
Category
19th Century Jamaican Regency Antique Compasses
Materials
Wood
British Ceylon Style Specimen Round Tilt-Top Table , 19th Century
Located in Charleston, SC
clockwise with contrasting exotic specimen woods extending from a central rosette fan compassed by an ebony
Category
Mid-19th Century Sri Lankan British Colonial Antique Compasses
Materials
Rosewood, Mahogany
Art Deco 0.60 Carat Diamond Platinum Filigree Solitaire Engagement Ring
Located in Boston, MA
. Securing the diamond are four brightly polished platinum compass style prongs~Located at the North, South
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Antique Compasses
Materials
Diamond, Platinum
18th Century Moroccan Etched Brass Astrolabe, Handmade Antique Arabic Compass
Located in Vineyard Haven, MA
This antique Moroccan astrolabe was once used to cross the Sahara desert. It is made of brass, carefully and ornately etched with markings to indicate time, direction, star positions...
Category
18th Century Moroccan Tribal Antique Compasses
Materials
Brass
Pocket Compass
Located in Lincolnshire, GB
A 19th century pocket compass with the owners name engraved on the cover.
Category
19th Century English Antique Compasses
$931
Boat Compass
Located in Norwell, MA
Antique boat dry card compass mounted into timber, dovetail box via gimbal by C.R. Sherman
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Compasses
$695
WWI Military Officer
s Marching Compass, Cbynite Radium Compass
By J.H Steward
Located in Austin, TX
A working military officer's marching or sighting compass of heavy brass from World War One, an
Category
Early 20th Century English Antique Compasses
Materials
Metal, Brass
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Antique Compasses For Sale on 1stDibs
An assortment of antique compasses is available at 1stDibs. Frequently made of metal, brass and wood, all antique compasses available were constructed with great care. There are all kinds of antique compasses available, from those produced as long ago as the 18th Century to those made as recently as the 20th Century. Victorian, Folk Art and Georgian antique compasses are consistently popular styles. Many antique compasses are appealing in their simplicity, but Lawrence and Mayo, Ceebynite Short
Mason Taylor and E. Koehn Geneve Suisse produced popular antique compasses that are worth a look.
How Much are Antique Compasses?
Prices for antique compasses can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — at 1stDibs, antique compasses begin at $150 and can go as high as $65,000, while the average can fetch as much as $853.
Questions About Antique Compasses
- How do antique compasses work?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022Antique compasses work with the use of magnets. Compasses use a magnetized needle that can rotate to line up with the Earth’s magnetic field, pointing towards the magnetic north. The basic concept of how compasses work has not changed over several centuries and magnetic compasses continue to work well today. Shop a variety of antique compasses on 1stDibs.
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