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Miniature double-hemisphere celestial chart.
Petrus Bertius.

Amsterdam, c.1602, Latin text edition. Untitled miniature celestial chart within an ornate strapwork cartouche, engraved by Pieter van den Keere. This is the earliest of two plates used to illustrated the Bertius atlas, without longitude and latitude scales. It was replaced by a new plate by Jodocus Hondius in 1616.
BERT0101		£295.00

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Set of Six Celestial Maps.
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.

London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1830. A detailed set of celestial charts on the Gnomic Projection, projected on the map in perspective. Thus the sheets form a rough cube. Each star is marked with its apparent magnitude and is shown within its classical constellation. The text contains an extensive quote from Flamsteed discussing his research on the originators of these constellations.
SDUK0062		£250.00

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View of the Imperial Observatory at Peking.
Jacques Nicolas Bellin.

Paris, c.1750. Showing globes, astrolabes and armillary spheres. The Peking Observatory was equipped by Ferdinand Verbiest, a Flemish Jesuit missionary in Peking in the late 1660s. Rather than building the latest models he worked from Tycho Brahe's 'Mechanica', published eighty years before.
BELL0113		£150.00

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Decorative titlepage
Archibald Fullarton.

London, c.1863. Engraved titlepage with female allegorical figures representing the arts and sciences.
FULL0004		£49.00

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The titlepage to the 'Gentleman's Recreation'
Richard Blome.

London: R. Bonwicke et al, 1710. The engraved title to the Second Edition of Blome's 'The Gentleman's Recreation', with allegorical figures of the arts, sciences and sports.
BLOM0011		£120.00

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The titlepage to Greenvile Collins' sea atlas
Greenvile Collins.

London, Mount & Page, c.1760. The title page to the first sea atlas of British waters, with allegorical figures including Britannia and Neptune. A chart of the British isles is held up by a pair of mer-people. Above the title are the arms of William III.
COLL0015		£125.00

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