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ENGHIRAMI, Giovanni. Mappa uranografica rappresentante la porzione dell'ora XVIII compresa fra i paralleli XVI°. Boreale e XV°. Australe delineata nell'osservatorio delle Scude Pie di Firenze. Florence: Stamperia Calasanziana, 1829. 2° (500 x 380mm). Tables and one engraved star chart (spotted and lightly browned, rusthole to edge of title and first few leaves). Original printed wrappers (a few tears and nicks). Provenance: "To the Observatory at Oxford, from the Reverend Thomas John ?Hussey (inscription on wrapper); Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford (stamps).
With 11 others including Six Maps of the Stars. Published under the Superintendence of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (London, 1833, 6 engraved hand-coloured star charts), Francis Wollaston's The Northern Circumpolar Region laid down from observation ([London, c.1800]), G. Schwinck's Mappa Coelestis sive Tabulae Quinque (Leipzig, 1843), Otto Boeddicker's The Milky Way from the North Pole to 10° of South Declination drawn at The Earl of Rosse's Observatory at Birr Castle (London, 1892) and E. Schonfield & A. Krueger's Atlas des Nördlichen Gestirnten Himmels (Bonn, 1899). (12)
With 11 others including Six Maps of the Stars. Published under the Superintendence of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (London, 1833, 6 engraved hand-coloured star charts), Francis Wollaston's The Northern Circumpolar Region laid down from observation ([London, c.1800]), G. Schwinck's Mappa Coelestis sive Tabulae Quinque (Leipzig, 1843), Otto Boeddicker's The Milky Way from the North Pole to 10° of South Declination drawn at The Earl of Rosse's Observatory at Birr Castle (London, 1892) and E. Schonfield & A. Krueger's Atlas des Nördlichen Gestirnten Himmels (Bonn, 1899). (12)
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