Condition Report
Contact Information
Lot 56
Sale 568 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
May 1, 2018
9:59AM
Live
Own a similar item?
Estimate
$400 -
600
Price Realized
$438
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
BURRITT, Elijah H. (1794-1838). Atlas, Designed to Illustrate the Geography of the Heavens. Hartford: F.J. Huntington, 1833.
Folio (408 x 355 mm). 7 hand-colored engraved celestial plans (one double-page). (A few tears occasionally touching plates, lower margin lightly dampstained.) Original printed wrappers (a few tears with minor losses, some staining). Second edition, with plates illustrating the night sky as visible from the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, and during the four seasons, as well as a planisphere on Mercator's projection.
