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Lot 456
Sale 5046 - Fine Book Sale
Jan 25, 2007
5:00AM ET
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1 piece. 1 piece.
Hand-Colored Engraved Celestial Map. Schenk, Peter. "Plainsphaerum Coeleste." Amsterdam, [ca. 1705]. 19 1/2 x 22 1/4 inches; 495 x 565 mm, narrow margins. bright & generally clean. Full old (orig.?) color. Framed.
The celestial hemispheres, with smaller hemispheres giving the Tychonica, Ptolemica & Copericana Models, tides, eclipses & seasons.
Warner, The Sky Explored, p. 222 #1, illus. on p. 223
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