Southern planisphere, from John Flamsteed's 'Atlas Coelestis' mb-code 2502593 Man riding an AJS motorbike

Man riding an AJS motorbike with a woman in the sidecar

The reverse is stamped: 'MAULL & POLYBLANK

plate VI of Industry and Idleness

In full agreement with this

each with a tail of a cat o' nine tails

Southern planisphere, from John Flamsteed's 'Atlas Coelestis' mb-code 2502593 Man riding an AJS motorbikeThe stars of the southern hemisphere. Map 26 from John Flamsteed's Atlas Coelestis, or star atlas (London, 1729). This was the first celestial atlas based on telescopic observations. Published posthumously, it was the work of the Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed FRS (1646 1719), and used the catalogue of 2935 stars in his 1725 Historia Coelestis Britannica. Original: engraving. 1729