Sale 2527 - Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books, December 17, 2019

229 c   BAYER, JOHANN. Uranometria, Omnium Asterismorum Continens Sche- mata, Nova Methodo Delineata, Aereis Laminis Expressa. Engraved pictorial title- page mounted to a larger sheet of contemporary laid paper and flanked by two columns of celes- tial-themed manuscript verse in Latin (including stanzas from Giovanni Pontano’s Urania), 51 engraved celestial charts skillfully flattened and mounted to uniform leaves of contemporary laid paper with ink rulings. Oblong 4to, 13 1 / 2 x17 1 / 2 inches, contemporary worn vellum, loss to upper backstrip and various edge areas; minimal instances of worming and other small dam- ages expertly repaired. Augsburg or Ulm, [title-page dated 1603, but plates a later edition] [5,000/7,500]