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Antique Map Auction Sale No. 121 - closed 9/26/2007

Featuring 885 lots of rare antique maps, charts, pocket maps, globes and atlases
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Lot #57: "Februarius - Vorstellung einer Gegend des gestirnten Himmels von Nordost nach Sudost" Johann Elert Bode

Antique map chart Februarius Vorstellung einer Gegend des gestirnten
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Estimate:
$110.00 - $140.00
Sold for: $80.00

Lot 57
By: Johann Elert Bode
Subject: Celestial
Date: 1801

Publication:

Condition: A+
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Color: hand color

Size: 8 x 6.2 inches
20.4 x 15.8 cm

Delicately engraved chart of some of the constellations in the southern sky of February, including Leo, Cancer, and part of the Big Bear. Johann Elert Bode, a self-taught astronomer, served as director of the astronomical observatory of the Berlin Academy of Science for nearly 40 years. He edited the Astonomisches Jahrbuch every year from 1774 to 1826, and published several popular astronomy texts and atlases.

Lovely later color with folds as issued.

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