Complete Set of 6 Celestial Chart Engravings

Artist or Author: Ignace-Gaston Pardies

Work: Globi coelestis in tabulas planas redacti descriptio

Date of Publication: 1674 or 1693

Style: Engraving with Professional Hand-coloring

Paper Size: Each Sheet ~ 30 3/4" by 21 1/4" (Fold Out)

Condition: The work is in very good to excellent condition overall. The lower corners have been rounded to plates 1, 4, 5, & 6. There is a light binders crease to the left of the upper center fold of plate 1. There are a couple light binders creases near the center fold of plates 4 & 6. There is some paper repair to the right edge within the written details of plate 4. There is some paper repair to the right and left edges within the written details of plate 6. There is some paper repair to the right edge within the written details of plate 5. There may be a few minor imperfections or faint marks to be expected with age. Please review the image carefully for condition and contact us with any questions.

Description of the work:

This rare collection of six celestial engravings is Ignace-Gaston Pardies's Globi coelestis in tabulas planas redacti descriptio The work was published in Paris in either 1674 or 1693 (undated). Each edition completed for this work is exceedingly scarce.

Pardies's star atlas is beautifully decorative. He figured his constellations after Johann Bayer's Uranometria but designed them over sections of the sky to six double page sheets. The six pages can be joined to create one large view of the sky.

Pardies (1636-1673) was a French Jesuit mathematician and astronomer. He created a number of celestial schemes and maps of the heavens. Pardies's maps were noted for the distinct stars and artistic constellation figures.