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A chart of the constellation Orion

Orion.

London: Leigh, c.1830. Original colour. Perforated card, 200 x 140mm.
Stock #:  26002

£200.00

1 in stock

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Description

Orion the Hunter, with a club in one hand a lion in the other. One of a set of thirty-two cards designed by 'a young Lady' to make the study of astronomy 'familiar and amusing'. It shows Orion as visible in the night skies of Britain, with an easily identifiable classical embodiment. The card is pricked through with holes of different sizes so that the amateur astronomer can hold it up to a light and get an immediate impression of the apparent magnitude of each star. Engraved by Sidney Hall.

Condition:

Small repair in title.

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