Apr 08, 2021 - Sale 2563

Sale 2563 - Lot 235

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
Reynolds, James (1817-1876)
Astronomical and Geographical Diagrams.

London: Reynolds, 1850s.

Small folio-format publisher's cloth folder containing the following loose sheets: one leaf of explanatory text, and twelve full-paged engraved diagrams of astronomical phenomena, six hand-colored: the Sun and Solar Phenomena; the Theory of the Seasons; the Earth and its Atmosphere; Diagram of Meteorology; Comets & Aerolites; and Eclipses, six perforated with transparent tissue: Transparent Chart of the Heavens; the Central Sun; Telescopic Appearance of the Moon; Transparent Solar System; Phases of the Moon; and Comparative Magnitudes of the Planets; green striped and textured publisher's cloth stamped in blind, lettered in gilt, 11 1/4 x 9 in.



Provenance: from the Stephen White Collection.