- 62
Schwinck, G.
Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
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Description
Mappa Coelestis sive Tabulae Quinque inerrantium septimum ordinem non excedentium et usque ad XXX gradum decl. Austr. Pertinentium quas pro medio Seculo XIX stereographice construxit. Leipzig: K. F. Köhler, 1843
Oblong folio (23½ x 26 in.; 597 x 660 mm). 5 engraved star charts printed in black and red after Schwinck by C. E. Weber; central vertical crease to title-page, text and plates, plates 3–5 with small tear repaired in lower margin, plate 5 also with repair to upper left corner of margin, verso of plate soiled. Modern quarter black morocco gilt, marbled boards, original printed label laid down on upper cover; label torn with some loss, some soiling, and with later nineteenth-century inscription.
Oblong folio (23½ x 26 in.; 597 x 660 mm). 5 engraved star charts printed in black and red after Schwinck by C. E. Weber; central vertical crease to title-page, text and plates, plates 3–5 with small tear repaired in lower margin, plate 5 also with repair to upper left corner of margin, verso of plate soiled. Modern quarter black morocco gilt, marbled boards, original printed label laid down on upper cover; label torn with some loss, some soiling, and with later nineteenth-century inscription.
Catalogue Note
First edition of a rare nineteenth-century star atlas. Schwinck's atlas was designed for professional use rather than as a popular atlas.