[Seller, John, senior, and others.

oblong folio (522 x 600mm.), 4pp. with cut out and mounted text, comprising 3pp. with engraved Latin text to Pardies (see footnote)and 1pp. (at end) with letterpress English text (see footnote), illustration: a collection of 16 engraved celestial and astronomical charts, 2 folding, first 6 laid on old paper for binding, 4pp. text pasted on full-page sheets, binding: contemporary calf-backed boards, some soiling, binding somewhat stained and worn

a composite collection of celestial charts. The contents are as follows:

1-6. The complete set of celestial charts from Ignatius Gaston Pardies' Globi coelestis in tabulas planas redacti descriptio... opus postumum [Paris: G. Duchange, 1674], with engraved text mounted on following 3 leaves
7. [Anon]. Orbis Caelestis tabula ex marmore antiquo in Aedibus Farnes: Romae. Twin-hemispherical celestial map, proof before lettering?
8. [Harris, Joseph]. Stellarum fixarum hemisphaerium Boreale. The Northern Hemisphere Projected on the Plane of the Aequator in which all the Stars contain’d in the Britannick Catalogue (as Publish’d by Dr. Halley) are carefully laid down and adapted to the beginning of the year 1690. [no imprint]
9. [Harris, Joseph] Stellarum fixarum hemisphaerium Australe. The Southern Hemisphere Projected on the Plane of the Aequator in which all the Stars contain’d in the Britannick Catalogue and those Observ’d by Sr. Edm. Halley at the Isl. of St. Helena are carefully layd down for the Year 1690 by Joseph Harris… engraved and sold by John Senex
10. Seller, John. A Coelestiall Planisphere by J. Seller
11. Seller, John. The Right Ascensions and Declinations of the Principal Fixed Stars in both Hemisphears to ye year 1678… printed and sold by John Seller
12. [Halley, E.] ...Australis Hemisphaerii tabulam. [John Seller Sr., 1678], title within the dedication
13. Seller, John. Zodiacus stellatus cujus limitibus Planetarum Omnium visibles viae comprehenduntur. Autore Jo: Seller Serenissimi Reg. Hydrographo

This chart is followed by three columns of English letterpress text describing ‘The use of the Planisphere’, cut out and mounted on one page, the first two columns apparently a continuation of the engraved text on Seller’s ‘Coelestiall Planisphere’, the engraved text ending with problem 7, the letterpress commencing with problem 8; the third column of text apparently relating to charts 12 and 13.

plus three maps loosely inserted:
14. [Harris, Joseph] Stellarum fixarum hemisphaerium Australe, in plano Eclipticae depictum, omnes catalagi Britannici stellas exhibens, una cum iis quas Cl. Halleius in insula Stae. Helenae observavit, eo situ delineatas quem anno 1690 habuerunt. A companion to nos. 8 and 9
15-16. [?Bevis, John. Aries. London, c. 1750]. Two proof versions of the plate, the second with additional images of constellations, and a graticule overlaid, both unlettered

The contents of this composite volume of English origin match closely those of lot 3280 (see also footnote), suggesting they were assembled at a similar time, probably by John Senex.