[Celestial Hemispheres] The First Part of the Northern Celestial Hemisphere. [&]The Second Part of the Northern Celestial Hemisphere. [&] The First Part of the So.n Celestial Hemisphere. [&] The Second Celestial Hemisphere.
J. Mynde sculp. [on one plate.]
[London, c.1760.]
Set of four engravings with hand colour. Each c. 155 x 295mm. All plates with binding folds, 2nd plate with damp and damage top right.
Four plates making up the two celestial hemispheres, with the constellations in their classic shapes. From volume 4 of 'Spectacle de la Nature: Or Nature Display'd. Being Discourses on Such Particulars of Natural History as Were Thought Most Proper to Excite the Curiosity and Form the Minds of Youth', an English edition of a work by Noël Antoine Pluche.
[Ref: 56837] £500.00
[London, c.1760.]
Set of four engravings with hand colour. Each c. 155 x 295mm. All plates with binding folds, 2nd plate with damp and damage top right.
Four plates making up the two celestial hemispheres, with the constellations in their classic shapes. From volume 4 of 'Spectacle de la Nature: Or Nature Display'd. Being Discourses on Such Particulars of Natural History as Were Thought Most Proper to Excite the Curiosity and Form the Minds of Youth', an English edition of a work by Noël Antoine Pluche.
[Ref: 56837] £500.00