Seller: Geographicus Rare Antique Maps, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.Geographicus Rare Antique Maps

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Very good. Deckled edges. Original platemark. Blank on verso. Original centerfold. Some foxing to left and lower left margins. A few minor margin tears - reinforced on verso - not impacting image. Size 24 x 34 Inches. An exceptional example of the 1801 Johann Elbert Bode elephant folio celestial, constellation, or star map of Pegasus, Equuleus, and Delphinus. Considered the largest and most dramatic celestial maps of their era, possibly ever published, Bode's gigantic star charts detail thousands of stars, nebulae, and clusters. Constellations are dramatically represented in pictorial form, as was the convention of the previous century. Many of the newly discovered nebulae, double stars, star clusters discovered by European astronomers in the late 18th century, such as Lacaille, Lalande, Messier, and Herschel, are identified. Bode presents this map on a conic geocentric projection in which most constellations are seen as from Earth. The current example is spectacularly colored gold highlighting of important stars. Publication History and Census Bode's constellation maps are extremely scarce tp the market. Issued in Berlin in 1801 for publication in Johann Elert Bode's Uranographia . References: Kanas, N., Star Maps: History, Artistry, and Cartography, 6.5.4, pages 183-4.…

Seller Inventory # Pegasus-bode-1801

Bibliographic details

Title
[Pegasus].
Author
1801 Bode Constellation Star Chart / Map of Pegasus (elephant folio)
Publication year
1801
Seller catalogs
CELESTIAL-LUNAR

Geographicus Rare Antique Maps

Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.

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Geographicus Rare Antique Maps was founded in New York, New York, by Kevin James Brown in 1999. We are specialist antiquarians dealing in historic maps from all over the world and in all price ranges. Our enthusiasm, passion, and devotion to scholarship is expressed in our meticulously researched descriptions, among the most detailed and comprehensive available anywhere, for each and every rare map that passes over our desk. This same devotion guides the relationships of honesty and trust we have fostered with our clients, whether through purchasing or selling a rare map, getting an appraisal, or simply calling to discuss antique maps in general. We are happy to assist you no matter whether you are an interior decorator, an institution, an experienced collector, or are just looking for a single antique map. Geographicus is a member of the ABAA (Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America), the ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers), the New York Map Society, the Washington Map Society, the IMCOS, and the Society for the History of Discoveries. While primarily an internet-based company, we are happy to meet with clients to show our antique maps by appointment at our New York City location.…

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