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Good. Toning along original centerfold. Small areas of loss along original centerfold. Centerfold reinforced. Size 15.5 x 21.75 Inches. This is a rare 1833 Elijah Burritt hand-colored map of the night sky. Centered on the Ecliptic, this map identifies zones associated with major constellations. The Milky Way is shaded. A scale exhibiting the Sun's place in the ecliptic at various times of the year appears below the map proper. This map, like all of Burritt's charts, is based on the celestial cartographic work of Ignace-Gaston Pardies (1635 - 1673) and Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (1677 - 1750). Publication History This map was engraved by W. G. Evans of New York under the direction of Elijah H. Burritt. It was issued as plate no. VII in the 1833 edition of F. J. Huntington's Atlas Designed to Illustrate the Geography of the Heavens . Dated and copyrighted: 'Hartford Published by F. J. Huntington 1833. Entered according to Act of Congress Sept. 1st, 1833 by F. J. Huntington of the State of Connecticut'. References: Rumsey 2853.005. Kanas, N., Star Maps, p. 277-78. Kidwell, Peggy Aldrich, 'Elijah Burritt and the Geography of the Heavens', Sky and Telescope #69 (January 1985).