question on old star charts

The local public library was recently given a beautiful set of full-sky photographic star charts the like of which I have not seen. This is the "Photographischer Stern-Atlas" by Dr. Hans Vehrenberg, publisherd by Treugesell-Verlag in 1963. It consists of two boxes of very nice reproductions of positive (ie, black stars on white background) photos on heavy 8.5x11.5-inch matte paper, The photo covers 7x7 inches on the page, and depicts a 1 degee square of sky. Each box contains 303 such charts, 0-12h in one box, 12h back to 0 in the other, covering +90 to -20 degrees. No Idea how deep it goes, hoo, what a lot of stars, but faint fuzzies don't show up very well for some reason. There is no labeling on the charts, this is not for sissies. It must have cost a lot, but pales in utility next to Uranometria. It is in unused condition.

My mission is to determine its worth and report back to the used bookstore. Help! This thing is staggering. Maybe if one of you wants it I could let you have it cheap and give the money to the library. I have a feeling it won't sell down there and end up in the junk heap with old Clark telescopes, etc. You could cut out the pics, stick them together, and paper an entire room with the sky, blasphemous idea that it is!
Thanks, Ron

There bookstore at the tehcnical university of Trondheim had a copy of such an atlas (probably the one you are talking about) when I was a student in the early 70ties. (A bit strange since there were no students of astronomy at the university). I didn't buy it for two reasons. It was too expensive for a poor student and I didn't find it very handy. As far as I can remember, there were no labels on the star, and it was really hard to figure out which part of the sky was shown on a randomly picked sheet. I still have some problems realising what such an atlas actually can be used for. I didn't find any DSO's on any of the (few) sheets I looked at.

Inge S