CATALOGUE DE LIVRES RARES FINE BOOKS - Camille Sourget

Precious enlarged edition of John Flamsteed’s famous celestial atlas, illustrated with 30 double-page maps.
Two new maps were added to the work for this French edition: the one showing the boreal celestial
hemisphere and the one of the southern planisphere, both drawn by La Caille.
The present edition is the second French edition. It is of the utmost interest because it contains very
interesting additions and important modifications provided by the discoveries of the French astronomer
Lalande.
Numerous stars and constellations were added to this edition.
“This edition is preferred to the original” (F.A. Ebert, A General Bibliographical Dictionary, n° 7618).
It is illustrated with 30 detailed double-page maps by C.E. Voisard after Flamsteed, showing all the
astronomical constellations. All the maps were handsomely contemporary hand-coloured.
A precious copy of this sought after celestial atlas with all the maps contemporary hand-coloured.
No copy of this work in contemporary colouring is recorded in ABPC.