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Flamsteed, John
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description
Atlas celeste. Lisbon: Impressão Regia, 1804
4to (9⅞ x 7½ in.; 252 x 190 mm). Engraved title-page vignette incorporating Portuguese and astronomical instruments, 30 engraved folding plates, 28 astronomical charts after Flamsteed and 2 planispheres after Lacaille by Romão Eloi de Almeida and others at the Arco do Cego press; plates generally crisp and clean, with minor marginal soiling and creasing, plate 14 with a few small wormholes. Contemporary vellum-covered boards, top edges rouged; some soiling, front free endpaper partially detached.
4to (9⅞ x 7½ in.; 252 x 190 mm). Engraved title-page vignette incorporating Portuguese and astronomical instruments, 30 engraved folding plates, 28 astronomical charts after Flamsteed and 2 planispheres after Lacaille by Romão Eloi de Almeida and others at the Arco do Cego press; plates generally crisp and clean, with minor marginal soiling and creasing, plate 14 with a few small wormholes. Contemporary vellum-covered boards, top edges rouged; some soiling, front free endpaper partially detached.
Literature
Biblioteca Nacional, Portugal, A Casa Literária do Arco do Cego 108; Innocêncio II, 113
Catalogue Note
First Portuguese edition of this beautiful celestial atlas. Flamsteed's original atlas was revised by Fortin in 1780, to include the work of Lalande and Machain, and the Portuguese translation was further updated by Francisco Antonio Ciera and Gomes Villas-Boas. The Arco do Cego press (offically the Tipografia Chalcografica, Tipoplastica e Literaria, located in Lisbon at the Arco do Cego) was established in 1800 at the urging of D. Rodrigo de Sousa Coutinho, Minister of State, for the purpose of spreading information on new techniques in the arts, industry, and agriculture in Portugal and Brazil. The director of the press and many of its workers were natives of Brazil living in Lisbon.
Scarce.