Lot 41
  • 41

Hoffmann, Karl Friedrich Vollrath.

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1,000 - 1,500 USD
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Description

Vollständiger Himmels-Atlas für Freunde und Liebhaber der Sternkunde nach den vorzüglichsten Hilfsquellen und eigenen Beobachtungen gezeichnet.  Stuttgart: J. Scheible, 1835



Oblong folio (13 x 16½  in.; 330 x 419 mm).  Two printed leaves and 32 lithographed star maps (27 partially handcolored in outline); scattered foxing, minor marginal dampstaining on some leaves.  Contemporary half calf, marbled boards; worn, rubbed.

Provenance

Bibliothek des K. K. Tech. Institutes, Brünn (19th-century stamp on title and verso of each plate, neat printed inventory number in upper right margin of each leaf).

Catalogue Note

First edition.  Hoffmann (1796–1842), director of the publishing house Cotta in Munich and Stuttgart, set up geographical institutes there and for a time was lecturer at the University of Munich.

Not in Houzeau and Lancaster.