Books and works on paper
An example of the extremely rare, “surreptitious” edition of John Flamsteed’s Historia Coelestis… – a star atlas that is one of the great rarities in its field – made a record £43,000 at Forum Auctions (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) on September 27.
The publishing history of this work, which in its ‘British Catalogue’ lists thousands of stars and was at the time the most extensive and comprehensive list available, is an unusual and contentious one.