Lot 1668
Lot 1668
Hemispherii Borealis Coeli et Terrai Spherica Scenographia.

CELLARIUS, Andreas (1596-1665).

Price Realised USD 5,670
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Hemispherii Borealis Coeli et Terrai Spherica Scenographia.

CELLARIUS, Andreas (1596-1665).

Price Realised USD 5,670
Price Realised USD 5,670
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[‌Amsterdam: Valk and Schenk, 1708.]

Cellarius's map of the Northern sky, illustrating the constellations of the Northern Hemisphere superimposed over the Pacific Ocean. The present is plate 25 from his Atlas Coelestis seu Harmonica Macrocosmica.

Hand-colored copper-plate engraving heightened in gold, 419 x 483mm (sight).
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Acquired from W. Graham Arader III, New York, by Ann and Gordon Getty in 1991.
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