Atlas Designed to Illustrate the Geography of the Heavens

From Mattatuck Museum

Elijah H. Burritt (created by)
Mattatuck Historical Soc (owned by)

1835 (Date manufactured/created)

Paper covered boards; hand-painted celestial maps

Celestial Atlas

16 1/4 in. H X 14 1/2 in. W X 1/2 in. D Measurement Notes: Dimensions Extent: overall
Framed?: No

School atlas with hand-colored celestial maps bound in brown paper boards with full title and table of contents given on cover... "Atlas Designed to Illustrate the Geography of the Heavens, Comprising te Following Maps and Plates...By Elijah H Burritt, A M New Edition. New York: Published by Huntington and Savage, 216 Pearl Street, Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the Year 1835, by F J Huntington, in the City's Office of the District Court of Connecticut". Cover with engraved image depicting astronomers with telescope. Constellation maps are in full color with accompanying scale of magnitudes. Front end paper with name of owner "???? E Williams / Colebrook . CT" inscribed in black ink.

Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Edward P. Smith, 1916

Accession/ID Number X2008.8

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