I am the happy owner of copper gravures with constellations from the 18th and early 19th Century.

These maps, most of them hand coloured, are from the atlases of Jean Fortin (1750-1831) "Atlas Céleste de Flamstéed, publié en 1776", edited by Joseph Jérome le Français de Lalande & Pierre Mechain, second edition, 1776, or third edition, 1795, or from the Portuguese version by Francisco Antonio Ciera and Gomes Villas-Boas, 1804, or from the atlas of Johann Elert Bode (1747-1826) "Vorstellung der Gestirne auf XXXIV Tafeln", 1805 (the second edition of his 1782 atlas). Furthermore I have some maps of the atlas of Christian Friedrich Goldbach (1763-1811) "Neuester Himmels-Atlas" (1799) and two maps of the "Celestial Atlas" (1822) of Alexander Jamieson.

I also own some maps with observations of Charles Messier on comets, published in the 'Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences'.

On Friday July 13 (!), 2007 I bought volume 1 of the extremely rare Atlas of the Moon of Johann Nepomuk Krieger, published in 1898.

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