A collection of 7 hand-colored engraved star charts, various sizes, 380 x 340 mm to 360 x 520 mm, engraved by W.G. Evans under the direction of E.H. Burritt for F.J. Huntington, Hartford, Connecticut, 1835, includes two circular Northern and Southern Circumpolar maps, four square celestial maps, and one entitled Celestial Planisphere or Map of the Heavens, fold lines, slight fading. All matted and framed; not examined out of frame. From Elijah H. Buritt's Atlas designed to illustrate the Geography of the Heavens. There were eight plates in the atlas, one of which was a Plan of the Solar System (not present here).
A collection of 7 hand-colored engraved star charts, various sizes, 380 x 340 mm to 360 x 520 mm, engraved by W.G. Evans under the direction of E.H. Burritt for F.J. Huntington, Hartford, Connecticut, 1835, includes two circular Northern and Southern Circumpolar maps, four square celestial maps, and one entitled Celestial Planisphere or Map of the Heavens, fold lines, slight fading. All matted and framed; not examined out of frame. From Elijah H. Buritt's Atlas designed to illustrate the Geography of the Heavens. There were eight plates in the atlas, one of which was a Plan of the Solar System (not present here).
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