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[‌Amsterdam: Valk and Schenk, 1708.]
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A striking chart of the Northern Sky, illustrating the constellations of the Southern Hemisphere superimposed over the earth's Southern Hemisphere. The present is plate 26 from Andreas Cellarius's Atlas Coelestis seu Harmonica Macrocosmica.‌
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Hand-colored copper-plate engraving heightened in gold, 419 x 483mm (sight).

Provenance
Acquired from W. Graham Arader III, New York, by Ann and Gordon Getty in 1991.
Sale Room Notice
This lot includes a group of 6 additional unframed hand-colored copper-plate engravings from the same work. They are plates 1, 5, 6, 11, 14, and 17.
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