An extremely rare atlas compiled by John Bevis in the eighteenth century,
discovered at the Manchester Astronomical Society

The Manchester Astronomical Society have discovered that a star atlas that has been in their library since before the Second World War is one of only twenty-three copies known to exist (2008). This extremely rare atlas was compiled by John Bevis, an eighteenth century physician - turned astronomer, whose other claim to fame is as the discoverer of the Crab Nebula, the wreck of a star that became a supernova in the year 1054 and which is now regarded as a key object of interest with modern astronomers; particularly in the UK with radio astronomers at Jodrell Bank

An up-to date list of all known Bevis Atlases from the Journal for the History of Astronomy article written by Kilburn, Pasachoff, and Gingerich, is available as a PDF file..