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[Title Page] Uranometria, omnium asterismorum...

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1639 and 1640 Johann Bayer

Uranometria, omnium asterismorum continens schemata, nova methodo delineata, aeris laminis expressa. [bound with:] Explicatio characterum aeneis uranometrias imaginum, tabulis, insculptorum, addita, & commodiore hac forma tertium redintegrata.

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Johann Bayer

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[Title Page] Uranometria, omnium asterismorum continens schemata, nova methodo delineata, aeris laminis expressa. [bound with:] Explicatio characterum aeneis uranometrias imaginum, tabulis, insculptorum, addita, & commodiore hac forma tertium redintegrata.

Publication Place / Date

Ulm / 1641 circa

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8 x 11.5 inches

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Uncolored

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Stock# 83152

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Title Page for Bayer's Uranometria

First published in Augsburg in 1609, Bayer's Uranometria was one of the great celestial atlases of the 17th century, a veritable golden age for start chart production.

Reference

See Norman 142; Deborah Warner, The sky explored: celestial cartography 1500-1800 pp. 18-19; Zinner 3951.

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