AN ANTIQUE CELESTIAL MAP, "Theoria Lunæ," NUREMBERG, 1735-1742, hand colored engraving on paper, a page fragment from Atlas Coelestis, plate 12, printed by Homann Heirs, a third generation of the original Johann Homann (1664-1724) publishing house, after work presented by leading astronomers and mathematicians including Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727), Tycho Brahe (1546-1601), Jeremiah Horrocks (1618-1641), Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687), Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598-1671), and Hipparchus (190-120 BC) and a short lecture by William Whiston (1667-1752). 19 1/2" x 23 1/2" Note: Showing elliptical lunar cycles, surfaces of the moon, comets, and other astronomical observations, mathematical models and data. Provenance: Property from a Corporate Art Collection.