Inventory of Known Copies of the Atlas Coelestis (1742) of Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr
Atlas Coelestis (1742)
Title page of Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr’s Atlas Coelestis (1742).
Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen (Göttingen, DEU) –
shelfmark GR 2 ASTR I, 1960-a – no further information.
Universiteitsbibliotheek Universiteit van Amsterdam (Amsterdam, NLD) – shelfmark OTM: KF 61-2277 (atlas) [=
UBM 364 A 9] – frontispiece (uncoloured), title page + 30 plates (nrs. 1 to 30).
Athenaeumbibliotheek (Deventer, NLD) – shelfmark 3002 H 3 – previously owned by
Willem Herman Cost Jordens
(1799-1875) – frontispiece (uncoloured), title page + 30 plates (nrs. 1 to 30).
Universiteitsbibliotheek Groningen (Groningen, NLD) – shelfmark uklu PC----2 – bound in one volume with the
Gerard Valck and
Petrus Schenk edition (1708) of the
Harmonia Macrocosmica of
Andreas Cellarius – frontispiece (uncoloured),
title page + 33 plates (nrs. 1 to 30 with three additional plates on the solar eclipse of 25 July 1748 and the
lunar eclipse of 8/9 August 1748.
TRESOAR (Leeuwarden, NLD) – shelfmark 511 Wk BB – previously owned by Seerp Brouwer (1793-1856) – frontispiece (uncoloured), title page + 30 plates (nrs. 1 to 30).
University of Cambridge Libraries (Cambridge, GBR) – shelfmark Atlas.3.74.4 –
apparently complete.
University of Edinburgh Libraries (Edinburgh, GBR) – shelfmark BB.1.9. – no further information.
Guildhall Library (London, GBR) – shelfmark AN 8.6.1 – no further information.
Royal Society Library (London, GBR) – shelfmark 37179 – no further information.
Bibliothèque national de France (Paris, FRA) – shelfmark GE CC-2258 [BnF link] – frontispiece (uncoloured), title page + 30 plates (nrs. 1 to 30).
Biblioteca dell’Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (Milan, ITA) – incomplete [plate 11 is badly damaged;
plates 18, 20, 23-25 & 28 are missing].
University of Michigan Library (Ann Arbor, USA) – shelfmark QB65 .D69 – no further information.
Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas (Austin, USA) – shelfmark F- QB 41.C758 1742 – previously owned by
Walter Emile van Wijk (1887-1961) –
frontispiece (uncoloured?), title page + 34 plates (nrs. 1 to 30 with
four additional plates).
Adler Planetarium Library (Chicago, USA) – shelfmark QB65 .D65 1742 FLAT – no further information.
University of Illinois Library (Illinois, USA) – shelfmark F. 523.8903 D72a – apparently complete.
Linda Hall Library (Kansas City, USA) – shelfmark QB41 .D6 1742
[online
link] – frontispiece (uncoloured), title page + 30 plates (nrs. 1 to 30).
Stanford University Library (Stanford, USA) – shelfmark QB65 .D66 1742 FF BB – apparently complete with additional plates.
Lt. James M. Gilliss (USNO) Library (Washington, USA) – shelfmark QB65 .D66 1742 R.B. Oversize – apparently
complete.
Atlas Novus Coelestis (after 1748?)
Title page of the later edition of Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr’s Atlas Coelestis.
Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg i. Br. (Freiburg i. Br., DEU) – shelfmark J 8564,b
[online link] –
composite atlas containing plates ???, frontispiece and title page lacking.
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (Amsterdam, NLD) – shelfmark RP-P-AO-29-5
[Rijksstudio link] – 37 plates
(nrs. 1 to 30 with seven additional plates), frontispiece and title page lacking.
Koninklijke Bibliotheek (The Hague, NLD) – shelfmark KW 1051 B 15 – no further information.
Universiteitsbibliotheek Utrecht (Utrecht, NLD) – shelfmark P fol 119 rariora – frontispiece (uncoloured), title page
+ 30 plates (nrs. 1 to 30).
Kungliga Biblioteket (Stockholm, SWE) – shelfmark 181 A 27 – no further information.
Bibliothèque Royale Albert I (Bruxelles, BEL) – shelfmark Section Cartes et Plans, II D 42.308
– with additional plate by Matthaeus Seuter “SPHÆRÆ ARTIFICIALES”.
Bibliothèque de l’Observatoire de Paris (Paris, FRA) – shelfmark Magasin 00047 – no
further information.
Bibliothèque national de France (Paris, FRA) – shelfmark RES ATLAS-V-88 [BnF link] – frontispiece, title page + 32 plates (nrs. 1 to 30 with two additional plates
on the solar eclipse of 25 July 1748).
Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Toruniu (Torun, POL) – shelfmark A-640-V [online link] – frontispiece (uncoloured), title page + ?? plates.
Strahov Monastery Library (Prague, CZE) – shelfmark ACH I 4 [online link] – frontispiece (uncoloured), title page (printer’s insignia lacking) +
21 plates (nrs. 4, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 20 & 30 with twelve additional plates unrelated to astronomy).
Biblioteca del Real Instituto y Observatorio de la Armada (Cadiz, ESP) – shelfmark 17277-3 – no
further information.
Houghton Library Harvard University (Cambridge, USA) – shelfmark *GC7.D7228.742a – apparently complete.
Union College Library (Lincoln, USA) – shelfmarks QB41 .C7580 1742 & DudleyRB QB65 .D69 1742 – no
further information.
Osher Map Library University of Southern Maine (Portland, USA) – shelfmark SM-1742-3
[online link] – frontispiece (uncoloured),
title page + 30 plates.
Princeton University Library (Princeton, USA) – shelfmark Oversize 8456.306e – no further information.
I gratefully acknowledge the help of Pieter Kuiper (University Library Amsterdam), Susanne de Jong (Athenaeumbibliotheek
Deventer), Diane Holtkamp (University Library Groningen) and Ids de Jong (TRESOAR, Leeuwarden) for supplying information on the
atlases in their collections.
