Astronomie Populaire, Description Générale Du Ciel by Camille Flammarion, '1880'

Celestial Maps · 19th century

Astronomie Populaire, Description Générale Du Ciel by Camille Flammarion, '1880'

€ 800

One of a kind: this is the sheet in the photographs. Ships from Langweer, the Netherlands.

Date: 1880
Sheet size: 28 × 20 cm (11.0 × 7.9 in)
Condition: Good
Reference: BG-12664

Condition

A well-preserved copy. Binding in good condition, some tears and wear. Lightly yellowed pages with minute spots of foxing.

About this sheet

'Astronomie populaire, description générale du ciel' by Camille Flammarion. Published in Paris, 1880. First edition of this pleasant work of scientific popularization by Camille Flammarion which aims to be a simplified continuation of François Arago's 'Astronomie Populaire'. Period half leather binding, smooth spine adorned with title and author in gilded letters. Illustrated in and out of the text with 360 figures in the text, 7/8 chromolithography plates and the sky map (missing the fourth plate).