'Twelve Planispheres: Forming a Guide to the Stars for Every...

Hammer

£85

'Twelve Planispheres: Forming a Guide to the Stars for Every Night of the Year', London, Taylor & Walton, 1846, 12 double page engraved plates as called for, preceded by title page, introduction and monthly tables, original cloth, printed paper label to front cover, inner joints split, leaves loose, with four late 19th/early 20th Century pencil sketches of stars/night sky loosely inserted; plus John Cary: 'The names and situations of the constellations : to which are added, the names of the principal stars therein, as laid down on Cary's new celestial globes; also an explanation of the equation table, given on his terrestrial globe', London, Andrew Wilson, 1816, stereotype edition, 21,[3]pp, original stitched paper wraps; plus John Claridge: 'The Shepherd of Banbury's Rules, to Judge of the Changes of the Weather', London, Thomas Hurst, 1827, new edition, original cloth backed boards, printed paper labels to front and rear covers (3)