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Alla auktioner / Böcker, Kartor och Texter / Camille Flammarion - Astronomie Populaire. Description générale du ciel - 1880
Superb illustrated edition of this famous work on the General Description of the Sky enriched with 300 figures, chromolithograph plates, celestial maps, etc., with numerous black-and-white and color illustrations, full-page and in the text - Remarkable researcher (he studied double and multiple stars, the topography and atmospheric composition of the Moon and Mars, aeroliths, the variations of the obliquity of the ecliptic), devoted in his later years to spiritualist and occult practices, and very intelligent popularizer of even the most abstruse astronomical theories in a simple, inspiring style, he left a large number of works - He successively describes Mercury, Venus, Earth and the Moon with their physical characteristics, their reliefs, their phases and eclipses, then the outer planets, Mars and its canals then the subject of debate, Jupiter and its satellites, Saturn and its rings, Uranus and Neptune still mysterious - The author also studies comets, asteroids and meteors, emphasizing their role in understanding the origin of the solar system. A large portion of the work is devoted to stars, their classification, their colors, their variable brightness, as well as the constellations that structure the sky map, opening onto the description of the Milky Way and nebulae, perceived as worlds in formation or distant stellar systems - Camille Flammarion - Popular Astronomy. General Description of the Sky - 1880 - C. Marpon and E. Flammarion - 839 pages. Good binding condition, the work in its original half-leather, marbled boards, wear from use, some minor defects on the cover, worn heads and corners, speckled edges, smooth spine adorned with gold fillets, gold-titled and author’s name on a maroquin piece - Good interior condition, browning and some stains, nice vignette on the title page, the work enriched with 300 figures, chromolithograph plates, celestial maps, etc., in text and out of text (some in color) including in the frontispiece, marbled endpapers in good condition, very good complete copy of its chromolithographs, pleasant copy - Delivery service guaranteed within a few days –
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