Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617
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Sale 2617 - Lot 66

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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
Rümker, Carl Ludwig Christian [aka Charles] (1788-1862)
Preliminary Catalogue of Fixed Stars intended for a Prospectus of a Catalogue of the Stars in the Southern Hemisphere.

Hamburg: Printed for Perthes & Besser, 1832.

First edition, large quarto, author's presentation copy, inscribed on front limp wrapper, "Professor A[lexander] D[allas] Bache with the author's Comp[limen]ts"; stab sewn and accompanied by the original blue limp paper wrappers, 10 x 8 1/2 in.

Rümker, a German astronomer, emigrated to New South Wales, Australia, in 1821. There, he worked as an astronomer at the new observatory built at Parramatta by Sir Thomas Brisbane, eventually taking charge of the observatory himself in 1826. The present project, recording the locations of the fixed stars in the southern hemisphere, was cutting-edge science in this period, and represents the first Australian star catalogue ever compiled. He returned to Germany in 1830.
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