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Celestial & Space
Ursa Major [The Big Bear]

Stock# 67192

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Alexander Jamieson

Title

Ursa Major [The Big Bear]

Publication Place / Date

London / 1822

Image Dimensions

9 x 7 inches

Color

Hand Colored

Condition

VG+

Stock# 67192

$ 245.00

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Description

A striking star chart centered on Ursa Major, marvelously engraved and delicately colored. Shows the featured constellations in color with neighboring stars and constellations without color. Jamieson's work is one of the finest of it's kind in the early 19th century. Alexander Jamieson published A Celestial Atlas Comprising A System Display of the Heaven. This work was published in London by G & W.B Wittaker, T. Caddell and N. Hailes in 1822.

Includes a colored Ursa Major and uncolored parts of the constellations of Ursa Minor, Camelopardalis, the Lynx, Cancer, Leo Minor, Chara, Cor Caroli, Asterion, and Draco.

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