Astronomie populaire en tableaux transparents.

Format
Book
Language
French
Published/​Created
[Hall] : Librairie de W. Nitzschke à Hall, Württemberg ; [Bruxelles] : Kiessling & Comp. à Bruxelles, [ca. 1856]
Description
1 portfolio (XII plates) : ill. (chiefly col. lithographs), charts, plates ; 31 cm.

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Subject(s)
Publisher
Lithographer
Notes
  • Plates with cut-outs backed with semi-transparent colored paper.
  • "Explication des différents phénomènes météorologiques": verso Pl. XII.
  • Title from cover.
  • Imprint at foot of leaf I.
  • Date from review in: Revue de Paris, 1er avril 1856.
  • Princeton copy 1 Cotsen c. 1: Some plates bear imprint: Lith. de G.F. Krauss à Stuttgart.
  • Princeton copy 1 Cotsen c. 1: Tickets of Traveller's Library and Reading-Room, Paris, and Librairie Alain Brieux, Paris, on cover p. 2.
  • Princeton copy 2 Cotsen c. 2: Name of lithographer not given; details on plates vary from c. 1, suggesting a variant issue.
Binding note
  • Princeton copy 1 Cotsen c. 1: Pub. brown cloth stamped in blind and gilt with yellow endpapers; imprint of Borrani et Droz, Paris, rubbed out.
  • Princeton copy 2 Cotsen c. 2: Pub. green cloth stamped in blind and gilt with yellow endpapers; with imprint: Kiessling & Cie, libraires, à Bruxelles; backstrip, ties and foldovers wanting.
Contents
  • Pl. I. L'astre central et le monde stellaire
  • Pl. II. Planisphère céleste
  • Pl. III. Système solaire
  • Pl. IV. Tableau comparatif de la grandeur des planètes
  • Pl. V. Le soleil et ses principaux phénomènes
  • Pl. VI. La lune vue à travers le telescope
  • Pl. VII. Tableau transparent des phases de la lune
  • Pl. VIII. Éclipses ; Flux et reflux (marées)
  • Pl. IX. Vicissitudes des saisons
  • Pl. X. La terre et son atmosphère
  • Pl. XI. Comètes et aérolithes
  • Pl. XII. Phénomènes variés météorologiques de l'atmosphère.
Place name(s)
  • Germany Hall.
  • Belgium Brussels.
  • Germany Stuttgart.
OCLC
177726013
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