Atlas Designed to Illustrate the Geography of the Heavens
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
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 the Following Maps and Plates....". By Elijah H Burritt, A M. New Edition, New York: Published by Huntington and Savage, 216 Pearl St. 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 image depicting astronomers with telescope. Seven constellation maps are in full color with accompanying scale of magnitudes.
X2008.7