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Henk Bril | profile | all galleries >> Astrohistorica (updated 2024) >> Star Atlases and Celestial Maps before 1900 tree view | thumbnails | slideshow

Star Atlases and Celestial Maps before 1900 | Star Atlases from the 20th Century | Historical Maps of Comets | The Moon | Plates from old Astronomy Books (updates 2024)

Star Atlases and Celestial Maps before 1900

I am the happy owner of copper gravures with constellations from the 17th, 18th and 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 atlases of Johann Elert Bode (1747-1826) "Vorstellung der Gestirne auf XXXIV Tafeln", 1782/1805. Furthermore I have some maps of the atlas of Christian Friedrich Goldbach (1763-1811) "Neuester Himmels-Atlas" (1799/1803), some maps of the "Celestial Atlas" (1822) and "An Atlas of Outline Maps of the Heavens" (1824) of Alexander Jamieson, and also some maps of the "Vollständiger Himmels-Atlas" (1835) of Karl Friedrich Vollrath Hoffmann.
In 2013 and 2014 I purchased a few maps of the Atlas Coelestis of Flamsteed (1781 edition).

Very special are also some maps of Johann Bayer's Uranometria (1661 edition) that I bought in 2014 and 2016.

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Johann Bayer - Uranometria
:: Johann Bayer - Uranometria :: 		Fortin 1776
:: Fortin 1776 :: 		Flamsteed 1781
:: Flamsteed 1781 ::
Bode 1782
:: Bode 1782 :: 		Fortin 1795
:: Fortin 1795 :: 		Goldbach 1799/1803
:: Goldbach 1799/1803 ::
Bode 1801
:: Bode 1801 :: 		Ciera/Villas-Boas 1804
:: Ciera/Villas-Boas 1804 :: 		Bode 1805
:: Bode 1805 ::
Jamieson 1822
:: Jamieson 1822 :: 		Jamieson 1824
:: Jamieson 1824 :: 		Archer 1833-1834
:: Archer 1833-1834 ::
Hoffmann 1835 (updated 2024)
:: Hoffmann 1835 (updated 2024) ::

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