Large star chart struck from Bode's original plate
Heading: (Celestial Maps)
Author: Bode, Johann Elert
Title: Large star chart from Bode's Uranographia - a modern restrike from the original plate
Place Published: East Germany
Publisher:
Date Published: c.1960's
Description:
Engraved plate. 58.5x80 cm (23x31½") on sheet 68x95 cm (26¾x37½").
Restrike made in East Germany in the mid-1900s from an original plate from Bode's famous 1801 atlas. Note the ecliptic and equatorial poles, several obsolete constellations (Le Monnier's Rangifer, Lalande's Quadrans Muralis and Custos Messium, and Bode's Honores Friderici) and Tycho Brahe's 1572 nova in Cassiopeia. Provenance: Nick and Carolynn Kanas collection.
Nick Kanas is the author of "Star Maps: History, Artistry, and Cartography," now in its third edition, published by Springer-Praxis Publishing, Chichester, UK, 2019. Due to the size and/or weight of this lot extra shipping and/or handling charges may apply.
Condition Report: A few mild creases, fine or nearly so.
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Heading: (Celestial Maps)
Author: Bode, Johann Elert
Title: Large star chart from Bode's Uranographia - a modern restrike from the original plate
Place Published: East Germany
Publisher:
Date Published: c.1960's
Description:
Engraved plate. 58.5x80 cm (23x31½") on sheet 68x95 cm (26¾x37½").
Restrike made in East Germany in the mid-1900s from an original plate from Bode's famous 1801 atlas. Note the ecliptic and equatorial poles, several obsolete constellations (Le Monnier's Rangifer, Lalande's Quadrans Muralis and Custos Messium, and Bode's Honores Friderici) and Tycho Brahe's 1572 nova in Cassiopeia. Provenance: Nick and Carolynn Kanas collection.
Nick Kanas is the author of "Star Maps: History, Artistry, and Cartography," now in its third edition, published by Springer-Praxis Publishing, Chichester, UK, 2019. Due to the size and/or weight of this lot extra shipping and/or handling charges may apply.
Condition Report: A few mild creases, fine or nearly so.