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Die Sternen-Uhr. Hand-coloured engraved base plate with cutouts to reveal three hand-coloured engraved rotatable cardboard volvelles mounted on cardboard knobs.

[With:] – Anweisung, wie man durch den Polarstern in jeder hellen Nacht am Himmel sehen kann, um welche Zeit es ist [...] Dritte Auflage. Mit einer illuminirten auf Pappe gezogenen beweglichen Sternen-Uhr. Leipzig: Magazin fuer Industrie und Literatur, [c.1800]. Octavo (210 x 127mm). 22pp. plus advertisement leaf. Original stitched blue paper wrappers, engraved title on upper wrapper; housed in a modern quarter morocco box.

934 x 814in. (25 x 21cm.)
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Lot Essay

A decorative portable nocturnal comprising a rotating disc based on the northern circumpolar stars and further volvelles for both the phases of the moon and date. The accompanying explanatory text is the undated third edition.

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