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

Antique print titled 'Systèmes Planétaires'. Chart of various celestial and scientific models. Includes an armillary sphere and various models of the universe, the season, eclipses, a Copernican, Tycho...

The Solar System – Astronomical Lithograph from the Nieuwe Hand-Atlas, Leiden 1876 This detailed 19th-century Dutch astronomical lithograph, titled “Het Planeten-Stelsel” (The Plane...

DISTINGUISHED PEDIGREE: from the libraries of Robert Hoe and John Barrymore. Elegantly illustrated and bound copy with a famed pedigree that spans from Robert Hoe—the businessman, collector, and founding member of the Grolier Club in 1884— to "The Lamberts" (probably purchased in the epic Hoe library auction of 1911-1912), who gifted it to the colorful and famous actor John Barrymore. Their bookplates adorn the inside covers, will your bookplate be next? Giarda, Cristoforo Bibliothecæ Alexandrinæ icones symbolicæ … elogiis illustratæ Milan: Giovanni Battista Bidelli, 1628. 4to, 9 5/8 x 7 inches (244 x 178 mm); (xii) + 140 pp, not including plates and inscriptions. Engraved architectural title with Saints Peter and Alexander by Francesco Bassano, 16 copperplates of female figures; woodcut dropcaps and tailpieces throughout. Later (circa 1890) red levant morocco binding by R. Petit (signed in gilt on front turn-in) with triple gilt frames on boards, raised bands, gilt title and decorative motifs in compartments; inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, professionally rebacked preserving original richly gilt backstrip in compartments; title and preliminaries stained, occasional spotting or light soiling and a few small light ink stains to covers. [Praz p.349] Provenance: Robert Hoe (blue morocco book label...

O/7821 - interesting French book that I saved from ruin: they are usually dismembered to make prints to sell individually. This one is intact, with its 24 printed plates. Nice to ...