Name: Antique Print-ASTRONOMY-ASTROLOGY-CONSTELLATION-ZODIAC-GEMINI-Seller-1677
SKU: PICTURA-09166
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Antique Print-ASTRONOMY-ASTROLOGY-CONSTELLATION-ZODIAC-GEMINI-Seller-1677

€145.00

‘GEMINI’

– Hand-coloured 17th-century celestial chart depicting the constellation of Gemini, the Twins, shown as two nude male figures embracing, with star positions marked. From Seller’s Atlas Coelestis.

In stock

SKU: PICTURA-09166 Category: World-Celestial Tag: Zodiac

Description

Medium: Etching with hand colouring on hand laid (verge) paper. Watermark: 7-pointed foolscap (in some of the plates).

Sheet size: 25 x 20 cm (9.84 x 7.87 inch). Image size: 15.5 x 13 cm. (6.1 x 5.12 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Light foxing, creasing, and soiling. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

ASTRONOMY, ASTROLOGY, CONSTELLATION, ZODIAC, GEMINI, 17TH-CENTURY, STAR MAP | PCO-C22-15

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

From: ‘Atlas Coelestis Containing the Systems and Theoryes of the Planets, The Constellations of the Starrs, and other Phenomina’s of the Heavens, with Necessary Tables Relateing thereto Collected.’, published by John Seller, in 1677. This is an early and pssibly the first celestial pocket atlas.

Biography artist: Publisher:?John Seller (1632-1697) was an English compiler, publisher, and seller of maps, charts, and geographical books. From 1671 he was hydrographer to the King.