Atlas, designed to illustrate the Geography of the Heavens, comprising the following Maps or Plates...
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Atlas, designed to illustrate the Geography of the Heavens, comprising the following Maps or Plates...
Name: Atlas, designed to illustrate the Geography of the Heavens, comprising the following Maps or Plates...
Barcode: 7553
Image Number: 7553
Permanent URL: https://oshermaps.org/map/7553.0001
Author: Burritt, Elijah Hinsdale, 1794-1838Huntington and Savage
Publishing Location: New York
Notes: Title from cover
Note: "New York: Published by Huntington and Savage, 216 Pearl Street."
Note below imprint: "Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1835, by F.J. Huntington, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut."
"Comprising the following maps or plates. Plan, exhibiting the relative magnitudes, distances and positions of the different bodies which compose the solar system. The visible heavens in January, February, and March. The visible heavens in October, November, and December. The visible heavens in April, May, and June. The visible heavens in July, August, and September. The visible heavens in the south polar regions for each month in the year. The visible heavens in the north polar regions for each month in the year. Planisphere of the whole heavens on Mercator's projection."
Order of plates(apparently as issued): III, II, I (folded), V, IV, VIII (folded), VII, VI.
Publisher's advertisement, p. [4] of cover, has testimonial dated January, 1834.
Date Produced: 1835
Date Published: 1835
Language: English
Dimensions: 42 x 36
Physical Description: 1 atlas: VIII leaves of plates (2 folded), colored, illustrated
LC Call Number: QB65 .B97 1835
OCLC: 17911269
Accession Number: OS-1835-6
Donor: Osher