SET OF (2) HUNTINGTON CIRCUMPOLAR MAPS BY ELIJAH BURRITT
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Lot of (2) Early 19th c. Hand Colored Northern and Southern Circumpolar Maps For Each Month of the Year, depicting the constellations of the northern and southern hemispheres, by cartographer Elijah Burritt (1794-1838), published by F.J. Huntington, 1835, entered according to an act of Congress, Septr. 1st 1835, by F.J. Huntington, of the state of Connecticut, engraved by W.G. Evans, New York, under the direction of E.H. Burritt, Plates VI and VII from 'Atlas, Designed to Illustrate the Geography of the Heavens', New Edition, by E.H. Burritt, publ. by Huntington & Savage, 1835; in matching wooden frames with black painted inner lip and mounted in double mats with applied art paper outline, OS: 29" x 27 3/4", SS: 14 1/2" x 13 1/4". Minor stains and toning, not examined outside of frame.
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SET OF (2) HUNTINGTON CIRCUMPOLAR MAPS BY ELIJAH BURRITT
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