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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

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

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 Doppelmayr appeared in early editions of Homann’s general atlases before being collected together and published as the ‘Atlas Coelestis’ by the Homann Heirs in 1742. The southern sky is flanked by stellar tables and views of some of the most renowned observatories of the day, including the Greenwich Observatory in London founded by Charles II and the Round Tower in Copenhagen, built by Christian IV of Denmark in 1642 - both of which are still standing. Some of the constellations, meanwhile, are no longer recognised, including Halley’s ‘Robur Carolinum’ (named in honour… Read More

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

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 and published as the ‘Atlas Coelestis’ by the Homann Heirs in 1742. The orbits of Earth, Mercury and Venus are shown on the Copernican model for the year 1710. Along the left and right edges of the sheet are linear charts depicting the transit of Mercury across the Sun on November 5, 1710 and the predicted transit of Venus across the Sun on June 6, 1761. The elaborate allegorical scene represents the planets orbiting the sun with ‘mother earth’ being pulled through the heavens in a chariot; the wheel of the chariot visible to us contains a map of the South Pole. Map

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

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 the service of the French King, Louis XIV. Map

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. Map

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 Gnomonic Projection and includes all the stars up to the fifth magnitude - those that can be seen with the naked eye. The legend also identifies nebula. The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was founded in 1826 with the high-minded aim of making 'useful' information available to self-taught members of the working and lower middle classes. Some of the material was decidedly abstruse, subscribers fell away and the Society was wound up in 1848; however, the series of 209 maps published over a 14 year period from 1829 onwards were highly praised for their superior quality, accuracy and aesthetic appeal and remain an… Read More

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 published as the ‘Atlas Coelestis’ by the Homann Heirs in 1742. As part of this, Doppelmayr summarised the development of astronomy as a discipline. This chart depicts the orbits of the major planets according to Copernicus and Kepler, who shared heliocentric theories of the solar system, hypothesising circular and elliptical orbits respectively. Notes explain Kepler's theories, as well as those of Ismael Bullialdus (author of Astronomia Philolaica), those of the English mathematician and astronomer Seth Ward, and of Nikolaus Mercator. Map

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, Andromeda, Cetus and Eridanus) are depicted in allegorical form, suspended above an engraved fishing scene. Map