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Aspin's A Familiar Treatise on Astronomy - Volume with Two Fold Out Astronomy Maps

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This volume with two fold out map engravings is Jehoshaphat Aspin’s
A Familiar Treatise on Astronomy. The work was published in London by Samuel Leigh at the Strand in 1825. The volume is in later green cloth, and features the two fold out maps. One is a sectional view of the solar system and the other a map of the northern hemisphere constellations.

Paper Size: ~ 4 3/4" by 8 3/8"; Sectional View of Solar System ~ 20 1/2" by 8 3/8" (Fold Out); Northern Hemisphere ~ 9 3/4" by 12" (Fold Out)

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