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Auction 126, Lot 59

"Augustus - Vorstellung einer Gegend des Gestirnten Himmels von Suden nach Westen", Bode, Johann Elert

Subject: Celestial

Period: 1790 (circa)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
8 x 6.2 inches
20.3 x 15.7 cm
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Lovely view of the constellations of the southern sky in August, including Hercules. 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.

References: Kanas, pp. 176-77.

Condition: A

Issued folding, now flattened.

Estimate: $110 - $150

Sold for: $80

Closed on 12/3/2008

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