Description: Geographia Antiqua: Being a Complete Set of Maps of Ancient Geography engraved from Cellarius,33 maps, here 32 maps, 1821, in Latin.Map # 26 Arabia Petyraea and Deserta is missing.Geographia Antiqua: Being a Complete Set of Maps of Ancient Geography; Beautifully Engraved from Cellarius. On Thirty-Three Copper-Plates. Designed for the Use of Schools, and of Gentlemen Who Make the Ancient Writers Their Delight or Study.F. C. and J. Rivington. London, 1821.A New Edition. Printed with a double page title, contents page also a double page spread and 33 (here 32) double page maps, sculpted by R. W. Seale. Map # 24 Palaestina sive Terra Sancta - hand colored mapHard calico cover, gold lettering to cover, 27.5 x 22 cm.Condition: Some tracks of moth to cover; some wear, creasing, stains, tear to title page and page with contents;4 first maps and map #24 (Palaestina) detached.Maps in good condition.The thirty-three beautifully engraved maps by Dutch-German cartographer and cosmographer Andreas Cellarius, best known for his 1660 star atlas "Harmonia Macrocosmica." Cellarius, born in Neuhausen, South of Frankfurt, and educated in Heidelberg, was a Protestant who left Heidelberg at the onset of the Thirty-Year-War. He married and moved to Amsterdam, the The Hague and finally Hoorn with his family. where he was the rector for the Latin School. The minor planet 12618 was named after him. A table of content lists thirty-three maps included in this volume. Text in Latin.
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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: London
Language: Latin
Illustrator: Cellarius
Author: Cellarius
Region: Europe
Publisher: F. C. and J. Rivington. London
Topic: Historical
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Subject: Geography
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1821
