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Stock# 67687
Description
Striking star chart of Auriga, also showing parts of Gemini, Ursa Major, Herschel's Telescope, Cassiopeia, Perseus and part of Taurus. Marvelously engraved and delicately colored.
Jamieson's work is one of the finest of it's kind in the early 19th century. Alexander Jamieson's A Celestial Atlas Comprising A System Display of the Heavens… published in London by G & W.B Wittaker, T. Caddell, and N. Hailes, in 1822, is one of the most decorative and sought after of 19th Century English Celestial Atlases.
