Dec 08, 2022 - Sale 2624

Sale 2624 - Lot 40

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(CELESTIAL.) James Breen, Sir John Lubbock, and The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Stanford's Maps of the Paths of Comets Visible to the Naked Eye Since 1800. 6 hand-colored engraved celestial charts together with a letterpress title-page, explanatory table, and Edward Stanford's advertisement leaf. Folio sheets, approximately 15x13 inches; foxing and soiling, charts pasted to backing boards and top mats. OCLC records four examples, none traced in market databases. London: Edward Stanford, 1858