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Nuremberg, Johann Baptist Homann, c. 1730. Copper engraving, 48.5 x 58.5 cm, original hand-colour, refreshed; margins pressed where they had been folded back for framing; blank verso. Doppelmayr became professor of mathematics at the Aegidien-Gymnasium in Nuremberg in 1704, and enjoyed a close working relationship with the founder of the Homann firm, Johann Baptist Homann. Astronomical plates prepared by… Read more about this item

London, Chapman and Hall, 1844. Six sequentially numbered steel engraved charts, each approx. 30 x 32 cms, and accompanied by title-page and leaf of explanatory text, designed by W. Clarke after W. Newton, and engraved by John & Charles Walker; original hand colour, blank verso. Allegorical images of the various constellations drawn in outline; each star chart uses the… Read more about this item

Nuremberg, , c. 1730. Copper engraving, 49.5 x 58.5 cms, original hand-colour, blank verso. Doppelmayr became professor of mathematics at the Aegidien-Gymnasium in Nuremberg in 1704, and enjoyed a close working relationship with the founder of the Homann firm, Johann Baptist Homann. Astronomical plates prepared by Doppelmayr appeared in early editions of Homann’s general atlases before being collected together… Read more about this item

Nuremberg,, c. 1730. Copper engraving, 49.5 x 59 cms, original hand-colour, blank verso. Doppelmayr became professor of mathematics at the Aegidien-Gymnasium in Nuremberg in 1704, and enjoyed a close working relationship with the founder of the Homann firm, Johann Baptist Homann. Astronomical plates prepared by Doppelmayr appeared in early editions of Homann’s general atlases before being collected together and… Read more about this item

London: William Orr, 1846. Steel engraving, 20.5 x 29.5 cms, engraved by John Dower, blank verso; published in the Rev. Thomas Milner’s: ‘The gallery of nature: a pictorial and descriptive tour through creation, illustrative of the wonders of astronomy, physical geography, and geology’. A detailed map of the moon, divided into four regions, with a key identifying 377 locations.… Read more about this item

Paris, 1683. Pair of copper engraved celestial hemispheres, each 14.5 x 10.5 cms, black and white, light stain on southern sheet, French text on verso. Northern and southern skies from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’, first published in Paris in 1683 and reprinted with German text in Frankfurt the following year. Mallet was a military engineer, cartographer and matdshematician in… Read more about this item

Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 15 x 10.5 cms, black and white, French text on verso, ‘new stars’ from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’, first published in Paris in 1683 and reprinted with German text in Frankfurt the following year. Mallet was a military engineer, cartographer and mathematician in the service of the French King, Louis XIV. Five constellations (Cassiopeia, Cygnus,… Read more about this item

Paris , c. 1755. Copper engraving, approx 15.5 x 22 cms, recent hand colour, blank verso; engraved by Le Bas for the third volume of “Spectacle de la Nature”. Map

Gotha, c. 1880. Steel engraving, 34 x 40 cms, original colour, blank verso; from Stieler’s Hand-Atlas. Map

Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 15 x 10.5 cms, recent hand-colour, light waterstaining in upper margin, French text on verso, from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’. Map

Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 15 x 10.5 cms, recent hand-colour, light waterstaining in upper margin, French text on verso, from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’. Map

Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 15 x 10.5 cms, recent hand-colour, light waterstaining in upper margin, French text on verso, from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’. Map

Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 15 x 10.5 cms, recent hand-colour, light waterstaining in upper margin, French text on verso, from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’. Map

Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 15 x 10.5 cms, recent hand-colour, light waterstaining in upper margin, French text on verso, from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’. Map

Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 15 x 10.5 cms, recent hand-colour, light waterstaining in upper margin, French text on verso, from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’. Map

Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 15 x 10.5 cms, recent hand-colour, light waterstaining in upper margin, French text on verso, from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’. Map

Paris, c. 1892. Lithograph, approx 24 x 40 cms, original hand-colour, blank verso; from Migeon’s ‘Nouvelle Atlas Illustre Geographie Universelle’. Map