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Charles Huard’s framed sketches in the Arader collection originate from the complete original sketchbook for New York Comme Je l’ai Vu [New York as I Saw It]

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Bayer, Johann. Hydra, 1603 Globes leaving a party of 15Johann Bayer Hydra From "Uranometria, omnium asterismorum continens schemata" Augsburg, 1603 approx.: 13 1 2" x 17" Bayer was the first accurate star atlas. A lawyer and amateur astronomer, he was the first to signify the location of the stars within a given constellation by the use of Greek letters (with the addition of the Latin alphabet for constellations with more than 24 stars). This strikingly simple innovation greatly improved the