EARLY CLASSICS ON MAPPING THE STARS
- the blue and gold collection

Sidereus Nuncius - Galileo Galilei
Venice 1610 ; 64pp, 210mm x 145mm

Galileo used his own telescope to examine the lunar surface and from his observations he was able to produce this, the first book to illustrate the phrases of the moon - a 'milestone' in astronomical literature. £25 Order

Harmonia Macrocosmica seu Atlas Universalis et Novus - Andreas Cellarius
Amsterdam 1708; 128pp, 510mm x 317mm

This beautiful publication of Cellarius's Atlas, with its twenty-nine double page hand-coloured plates, is regarded as one of the most spectacular celestial atlases of all time. This edition is the Schenk and Valk edition in the Map Library of the British Museum rather than one of the earlier and less colourful editions of Johannes Janssonius. £195 Order