Pegasus and Equuleus.
LEIGH, Samuel.
Publication Date: 1830
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London: Leigh, c.1830. Original colour. 140 x 200mm. Laid on perforated card as issued. Original print, 'Equuleus' was the brother of Pegasus, the winged horse. One of a set of thirty-two cards designed by 'a young Lady,' to make the study of astronomy 'familiar and amusing'. It shows the constellations as visible in the night skies of Britain, with easily identifiable classical embodiments. The card is pricked through with holes of different sizes so that the amateur astronomer can hold it up to a light and get an immediate impression of the apparent magnitude of each star. Engraved by Sidney Hall. Seller Inventory # 12203
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Title: Pegasus and Equuleus.
Publication Date: 1830
Binding: No Binding
Condition: Very Good
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Pegasus Equuleus.
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Seller: Altea Antique Maps, London, United Kingdom
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Frankfurt, 1730. Fine original hand colour. 205 x 140mm. A chart of the constellations of Pegasus and Equuleus (the winged horse and foal), engraved by Johann Christoph Berndt for the celestial atlas 'Mercurii Philosphici Firmamentum Firmianum', named for Thomas's patron, Leopold Anton von Firmian, Archbishop of Salzburg. Corbinianus Thomas (1694-1767), a Benedictine monk, was Professor of Mathematics and Theology at the University of Salzburg. His star atlas was first published in 1730 at Frankfurt, with a second edition at Augsburg the following year. He used an odd system for nomenclature: Greek letter for the star, Roman numeral for the magnitude and Arabic numeral for the star catalogue reference. KANAS: 7.7, 'beautiful illustrations'; WARNER, p.251. Seller Inventory # 21406
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