Print Description
Medium: Etching with hand colouring on hand laid (verge) paper. Watermark: 7-pointed foolscap (in some of the plates).
Sheet size: 30 x 25 cm (11.81 x 9.84 inch). Image size: 15.5 x 13 cm. (6.1 x 5.12 inch).
Condition: very good, given age. Set in matting. Light foxing, creasing, and soiling. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
ASTRONOMY, ASTROLOGY, CONSTELLATION, ZODIAC, SCORPIO, 17TH-CENTURY, STAR MAP | EXPO-NATURE
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.
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