Wollaston, Francis

A Portraiture of the Heavens, as they appear to the naked eye: constructed for the use of Students in Astronomy.  London: printed for J. Cary, 1811



Folio (16½  x 11⅜  in.; 419 x 288 mm)  10 double-page engraved plates; small tear at upper outer corner of title, light dampstaining affecting the upper outer corners of plates 7–10.  Original plain paper wrappers; spine chipped, some light dampstaining and a spotting.

DSB XIV:484-85; Linda Hall, Out of this World 37

First edition of "the first major star atlas published after Bode's Uranographia of 1801" (Linda Hall).  "Wollaston's most important contribution to astronomy was not made at a fundamental level, but was rather his publication of ... useful practical aids to the ordinary astronomer and navigator ... His third important contribution, a collection of ten plates ... was published by John Cary Sr., whose firm was renowned for its maps, atlases, and globes" (DSB).