ELIJAH H. BURITT (ACTIVE 19TH CENTURY)

Atlas, Designed to Illustrate the Geography of the Heavens: Six Plates

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ELIJAH H. BURITT (ACTIVE 19TH CENTURY)
Atlas, Designed to Illustrate the Geography of the Heavens: Six Plates
six engravings, 1832-5, with hand-coloring, on laid papers, published by F.J. Huntington, Hartford, Connecticut, with margins, pale light- staining on all plates, creasing mostly within the margins extending slightly into the images of several plates, occasional pale foxing, Pl.VII with a ¾-inch tear at the center of the left margin edge extending into the image, otherwise apparently in very good condition, in mahogany-stained wood frames, not examined out of the frames
all P. approx. 16 x 16 in. (405 x 405 mm.) (6)

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Including:
Pl.II: December, November, October; Pl.III: March, February, January; Pl.IV: June, May, April; Pl.V: September, August, July; Pl.VI: Northern Circumpolar Map for each Month in the Year; Pl.VII: Southern Circumpolar Map for each Month in the Year

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