Lot 1427
  • 1427

ANDREAS CELLARIUS. HARMONIA MACROCOSMICA SEU ATLAS UNIVERSALIS ET NOVUS: A PAIR COPPER-ENGRAVED CELESTIAL MAPS

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Harmonia Macrocosmica seu Atlas Universalis et Novus: A Pair Copper-engraved Celestial Maps
Copper-engraved celestial maps, with full original color, Amsterdam: G. Valk & P. Schenk, 1708. Framed. lot includes: [The Northern Celestial Hemisphere, with the Terrestrial Hemisphere beneath] Hæmisphærium stellatum boreale cum subiecto hæmisphærio terrestri — [The Southern Celestial Hemisphere superimposed over the Terrestial Sphere] Hæmisphærium Stellatum Australe Æquali Sphærarum Proportione each sheet approximately: 502 by 578 mm 19 3/4 by 22 3/4 in

Condition

Both in generally fine condition.
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Catalogue Note

Some of the finest and most highly decorative celestial charts ever produced Andreas Cellarius was born in about 1596 in Neuhausen, a small town near Worms in the Rhine-Hesse region of Germany. From 1625 to 1637 Cellarius worked as a schoolmaster in Amsterdam and The Hague, and in 1637 moved to Hoorn, where he was appointed as headmaster or rector of the Latin School. He published a number of works during his lifetime, but the last and greatest was the Harmonia Macrocosmica. Cellarius resigned from his post as headmaster in early 1665 and died in Hoorn in November of the same year.