Georgens, Jan Daniel, and Jeanne Marie von Gayette

Sternbilder-Buch.  Vienna: L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsche & Comp., 1858



Folio (15 ¼ x 11¼ in.; 388 x 286 mm).  Tinted lithographed frontispiece, 34 lithographed plates (one folding, 32 printed in gold, one tinted); minor foxing to margins of title-page and frontispiece.  Publisher's blue buckram, elaborate lithographed label printed in two colors laid down on front cover; some wear and minor soiling.   

First edition of an attractive celestial atlas, one of the more elaborate productions of the mid- to late-nineteenth century drive to popularize scientific education.  The illustrations of the constellations are surrounded by detailed neoclassical decorations and the whole printed in gold.  In addition, the folding plate of the skies of the Northern Hemisphere is intended to be removed from the book and pricked with pins in appropriate spots and held up to a light for viewing.

Not in NUC.