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Yutaro Saito - Tokyo Street Style
Isbn 9782940695409
Publisher Label Rapace
Idea code 251050
€ 28.60
While the fashion world flocks to the front rows and influencer-filled sidewalks of Fashion Week, Japanese photographer Yutaro Saito turns his lens elsewhere - toward the effortlessly stylish elders of Tokyo. In this striking collection, Saito captures candid portraits of sharply dressed older gentlemen, their looks punctuated by decade-worn loafers, vintage bomber jackets, and an enduring sense of cool. Paired with hyper-real, almost dreamlike images of the Tokyo cityscape - where delivery crates glow like neon sculptures and bollards become surreal installations - this work is a poetic homage to timeless style and the unnoticed beauty of urban life.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, hb, English
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Urban Enigmas - Visual Puzzles from the Streets
Isbn 9789526528670
Publisher Other Editions
Idea code 260023
€ 10.00
Urban Enigmas is a photo-zine in the form of a puzzle magazine. Everyday urban fragments become visual challenges: misaligned manhole covers, graffiti terminology, street-sign silhouettes, accidental letterforms. The city becomes both raw material and playground for observation. Each puzzle is paired with a short essay exploring what these fragments reveal about how we read, navigate, and inhabit urban space. Through a mix of logic, coincidence, and visual surprise, Urban Enigmas invites readers to reconsider how the city communicates.
16 p, ills bw, 17 x 25 cm, pb, English
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RAKU - A Living Tradition
Isbn 9784861529900
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 251008
€ 42.45
Raku ware started with the first generation of the Raku family, Chojiro, during the Momoyama period in 16th-century Japan. Since that time, successive generations of the family have continued to pass on the unique tradition and techniques behind the production of these highly sought-after ceramics to the present day. Even the production and firing methods are still the same as they were 450 years ago. Through numerous photographs with accompanying commentary, this newly revised edition of this publication traces the aesthetic sensibilities and works of every single generation of the Raku family, from its beginnings in the 16th century through its modern practice in the 21st century.
348 p, ills colour, 17 x 26 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Archivio 11: The Tech Issue
Isbn 25331043
Publisher Archivio
Idea code 251065
€ 22.60
Archivio opens its third editorial cycle with four thematic issues curated by guest editors who bring deep expertise to exploring the intersections of past, present, and future. The third issue, Archivio N°11, focuses on technology and is curated by Massimo Banzi, co-founder of Arduino, with Cecilia Botta, technology historian and Head of Memories at Promemoria Group. The cover by artist Ailadi, created using the PETSCII character set of Commodore 8-bit computers, evokes early digital aesthetics. The issue maps international technology archives, tracing the roots of the digital revolution, and is organized into three sections with a special poster mapping Italy’s tech archives.
272 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Showa Modern: 1920s–30s Japanese Advertising Design (New Edition)
Isbn 9784861529931
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 250916
€ 13.60
A new urban lifestyle blossomed in Japan in the 1920s and ’30s as cafés, bars, and boutiques selling Western-inspired fare and fashions crowded city streets and people embraced different modes of living. Tokyo was being rebuilt after the great earthquake of 1923, while further south Osaka entered a period of unprecedented prosperity. Amid these turbulent times, advertisers scrambled to find new promotional strategies to attract consumers, inspiring the rise of commercial art to communicate and evoke new information and images. Even today, the ads in this book are as vibrant and filled with wonder as they were in those years, a testament to the efforts of their designers.
264 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 15 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Showa Modern: 1920s–30s Japanese Signs & Stores Design (New Edition)
Isbn 9784861529948
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 250917
€ 13.60
The signs, street and window displays, and other designs gathered in the pages are from a time of enormous change in Japanese cities that is known as the age of Showa Modern. Western modes and fashions entered Japan’s thriving cultural spheres at a dizzying pace. As advertisements, signs are destined to eventually be taken down or replaced, but even so they are an integral part of the urban scenery. Although the designs featured here are a century old, many seem new even now – proof that they have lost nothing of their striking presence. They reflect the pursuit of the Japanese design industry to create a peerless, colourful world of inspiring visualisations.
264 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 15 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Chandigarh Furniture
Isbn 9782970173083
Publisher Maxitype
Idea code 250907
€ 16.35
This self-published volume presents, across 40 pages, a selection of heavily worn pieces of furniture from Chandigarh, some featuring inventive, improvised repairs. The cover, designed in Chandigarh and printed on Sri Aurobindo handmade paper, reinforces the book’s close connection to the city and its material culture. Awarded in the “Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2014,” this second edition (2025 reprint) expands the project with five additional pieces of furniture.
40 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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MXTP Vol. 1
Isbn 9782970173038
Publisher Maxitype
Idea code 250906
€ 38.80
MXTP Vol. 1 gathers a wild mix of display typefaces: blocky, funky, experimental, sad, geometric, distorted, nerdy, sticky, obsolete, trippy, and everything in between. Designed largely during Maxitype’s summer type residencies in Cucuron, France, these fonts embrace freedom over functionality. Originally known as the Maxitype Free Font Residency, MXTP encourages creative risk and rejects commercial pressure, allowing designers to explore references, techniques, and tools without limits. Loud music, fast ideas, and spontaneous experimentation shaped fonts created in a week, a day, or even an hour by the pool or at the bar. After three summers of MXTP, this volume kicks off a series of “mixtapes” that celebrate type design at its most liberated and playful.
136 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 23 cm, hb, English
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O.OO: No Magic In Riso (3rd reprint)
Isbn 9789869758802
Publisher O.OO Risograph & Design
Idea code 19361
€ 46.00
It took 850 days, 74 tubes of soy ink, 15 colors, 660 masters, 690,000 sheets of paper, 3 fans, 2 riso printers, and 4 people to complete a book – a 360 page book that only talks about 1 thing. The thing that is always the most fascinating is “Process”. The processes and experiences that did not have the chance to appear in the pages of this book can only be quantified, converted, and recorded into words. The process creates micro-imperfections in printing, similar to spontaneity, or even comparable to how improvisation in jazz can lead to an unexpected but pleasant result. The result of two years of research by O.OO, a graphic design studio based in Taipei, the main focus of this publication is colour separation and experimentation with images. The studio does not claim the colour separation methods described here to be absolute or the “right” way, but offer resources in hopes that they can provide helpful advice in practice while on the path to professionalism in this field.
360 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Striking! Advertising Matches from Singapore (reprint)
Isbn 9789811843983
Publisher Temporary Press
Idea code 22396
€ 40.25
With their rectangular and pocket-friendly form, matchboxes printed with advertisements once offered an affordable and portable means of marketing. Known as “advertising matches”, these petite boxes containing matches, including matchbooks that flipped open from the top, served a functional need in a time when lighters had yet to become commonplace. This collection of over 350 covers from Singapore – each reproduced in actual size – captures the city’s colourful modernisation in the period from the 1970s to 1990s. Discover stylish buildings, modern forms, trendy logos, sexy figures, exotic cultures, flamboyant fonts, and more. A “lit” collection of vintage advertising.
400 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 8 cm, pb, English
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Publishing as Method (2nd ed)
Isbn 9791190434430
Publisher Mediabus
Idea code 250973
€ 27.50
Exploring art publishing practices today, this book focuses in particular on small-scale publishing in Asia. It attempts to contextualise and compare the region’s increasingly important publishing practices in contemporary art within both historical and regional contexts. The book features a range of interviews and essays contributed by various actors and entities in the field, including publishers, artists, designers, curators, collectives, and distribution spaces. Interviews conducted since 2020 also shed light on the complexities and possibilities of artistic practices in the post-pandemic era. ‘Publishing as a Method’ is researched by the Seoul-based publishing collective mediabus.
446 p, ills bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, Korean/English
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Jean Jullien - Mermed 1
Isbn 9791095991526
Publisher Editions Empire
Idea code 251007
€ 37.65
'Mermed' is the first chapter of an artistic odyssey which sees Jean Jullien make a stopover at the Galerie Masurel. Charged with a profound emotional dimension, his paintings’ itinerary starts out in the Bigouden region. It is these lands that the artist holds dear which take shape here through their palette of colours and their natural elements. The journey continues along the coast of the Mediterranean, through France, Italy, and Greece. The sea gradually becomes a projection screen for an imaginary world of shared forms of knowledge and mythology. As we continue on our way, we strike out towards a symbolic elsewhere.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 27 cm, hb, French/English
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Jean Jullien - Under Dogs
Isbn 9781910239315
Publisher Hato Press
Idea code 250852
€ 18.80
A thoughtful collection of Jullien's dog drawings. Dogs provide an insight to character and narrative throughout Jullien's work, and here they take center stage, illustrated in his recognisably playful style. Born in Nantes, France (1983), Jullien studied at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art. His instantly recognisable style – marked by bold lines, vibrant colours, and humour-infused social observation – has made him an international figure in contemporary visual culture. His practice spans painting, illustration, photography, video, costume, installation, and design, and he has exhibited widely across major global cities. His work often comments on modern life and human relationships, balancing irony and warmth.
22 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 21 cm, hb, English
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Jean Jullien - Low Glow
Isbn 9781910239292
Publisher Hato Press
Idea code 250853
€ 18.80
A sardonic look at the modern condition through the comedic and playful drawings of Jean Jullien. Born in Nantes, France (1983), Jullien studied at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art. His instantly recognisable style—marked by bold lines, vibrant colours, and humour-infused social observation—has made him an international figure in contemporary visual culture. His practice spans painting, illustration, photography, video, costume, installation, and design, and he has exhibited widely across major global cities. His work often comments on modern life and human relationships, balancing irony and warmth.
32 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 21 cm, hb, English
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Jean Jullien - Holidays
Isbn 9781910239193
Publisher Hato Press
Idea code 250851
€ 18.80
Jean Jullien's 'Holidays' takes a look at the adventures of today's pink-faced, selfie stick-wielding holidaymaker. Crispy raw skin, ice cream chin, perilous selfies, brief romances and pockets of useless souvenirs; a tourist’s guide to summer, Holidays is an unfiltered snapshot of the holiday experience as we (truly) know it. Jean Jullien is a French graphic artist currently living in London. His practice ranges from illustration to photography, video, costumes, installations, books, posters and clothing to create a coherent yet eclectic body of work.
32 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 21 cm, hb, English
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Maisa in Webland - Detouring UX Destinies
Isbn 9789083579542
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 251094
€ 23.10
What does a “user-friendly” web really mean when behaviours once seen as marginal - stalking, teasing, ghosting - have become part of how we survive, care, and belong online? How can one thrive without becoming an “Interdisciplinary Unicorn,” the ideal user-citizen fluent in optimization, branding, and constant productivity? And how are we supposed to log off when surveillance and the erosion of privacy have been normalized, while every cool or cringe gesture fuels the platform’s reward system? How do we resist the web’s toxic seductions? Drawing on early cyberfeminist websites and conversations with digital thinkers, media artist and web developer Maisa Imamović undertakes a philosophical, practice-based journey through the internet’s bright surfaces and murky infrastructures. Exploring imperfect uses of perfect software, the preservation of fragile web spaces, tactical content strategies, and experiments in autonomous economies, she seeks ways of thriving without surrendering to optimization. In these subterranean traversals, Imamović imagines a speculative, precarious, poetic Webland where binaries loosen and meaning escapes monetization - raising the question: can a non-extractive internet truly exist?
248 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Enrico Cerovac - Not far from here
Isbn 9788890974021
Publisher Skinnerboox
Idea code 251058
€ 35.75
For over a decade, beginning in Italy, Enrico Cerovac has documented the people, places, and striking contrasts that shape the skateboarding community. Moving through the urban spaces where this culture comes alive, he captures the everyday stories of those who inhabit it - from its raw, DIY roots to its more mainstream expressions. The result is an intimate, deeply personal visual archive: a collection of photographs that celebrates skateboarding as a collective act of belonging, creativity, and the continual reimagining of public space. All images were shot on 35mm film between 2015 and 2025, spanning cities including Milan, Turin, Trieste, Ljubljana, Copenhagen, London, Paris, Fuerteventura, New York, Los Angeles, São Paulo, and more.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Camille Bidault Waddington – The Office
Isbn 9791095991823
Publisher Editions Empire
Idea code 251075
€ 41.95
In THE OFFICE, stylist Camille Bidault-Waddington uses her iPhone to document the labor of fashion photography, capturing the process behind the finished image. From 2015 to today, Bidault-Waddington’s captured nearly two hundred photographers at work. Shaped by her stylist’s perspective, Bidault-Waddington’s images reveal the collaborative craft, offering a thoughtful exploration of authorship, gesture, and the invisible work that defines what fashion photography is.
160 p, ills colour, 15 x 21 cm, hb, English
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Interwoven Histories - Contemporary Art, Migratory Narratives and Textiles
Isbn 9789462087309
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 250856
€ 34.00
In 'Interwoven Histories: Contemporary Art, Migratory Narratives and Textiles' curator and textile researcher Christel Vesters unravels the intricate connections between textile, history, and society from a contemporary art perspective. Through essays and detailed examination of five seminal works of contemporary art, she looks at textile and textile techniques as a medium and as a mediator, exploring how textile objects – old and new – bear witness to histories and stories that are often marginalized or forgotten.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Forming Cityscapes #10 Shelter
Isbn 9789819434152
Publisher Temporary Press
Idea code 251018
€ 8.00
Forming Cityscapes is a project where designers Jamie Yeo and Gideon Kong obsessively observe and photograph minor urban occurrences in the city of Singapore. These can be seen as forms of appropriation, resistance, improvisation, or critique within spaces or structures implemented at a smaller scale. In the tenth release, they look at how people shield their items, fruits or themselves from harsh conditions or predators.
60 p, ills bw, 13 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Atrocity Exhibitions - Grieving in the TikTok Underworld
Isbn 9781914236624
Publisher Rough Trade Books
Idea code 260012
€ 15.05
'Atrocity Exhibitions Grieving in the TikTok Underworld' is a short sharp literary shock from acclaimed songwriter and musician Owen Williams. With blistering honesty, Williams examines the particular grief he feels in the wake of his mother’s suicide through the prism of a certain social media platform – ‘the Atrocity Exhibition’. Through the Exhibition's various galleries and spaces we come into contact with trauma-grift, ‘lolcows’, cruelty, paganism, Joan Didion and illness, de Sade and sexuality, and of course J.G. Ballard – all dissected with the deftest of prose touches and building into a frank accounting of the delusions and deceptions we all build so much of our selves from – both on and off-line.
84 p, no ills, 13 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Jan van der Vaart: Master Potter
Isbn 9789083562117
Publisher Cometa*
Idea code 250991
€ 48.55
Jan van der Vaart (1931–2000) was a leading figure in Dutch ceramics, known for his clear geometric forms and refined glazes. Calling himself simply a “potter,” he produced thousands of vases, tulip towers, and candlesticks, and was an early adopter of ceramic multiples - an approach that broadened access to his work while prompting debate in the field. As a longtime teacher at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, he trained more than a hundred ceramicists. This 256-page monograph offers a concise, multifaceted overview of his practice. Essays by Jan de Bruijn, Garth Clark, Edo Dijksterhuis, and Arjen Ribbens examine his working methods, his views on production, and his role as a teacher. New photography by Petra and Erik Hesmerg documents Van der Vaart’s ceramics in studio settings and private collections.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 31 cm, hb, English
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Masterpiece of World - The 45th Anniversary Book
Isbn 9784846533267
Publisher World Photo Press
Idea code 250993
€ 20.40
Since the brand’s establishment in 1979, Studio D’Artisan in Japan has pursued the essence of jeans, creating new products with a unique ethos. D’Artisan, the first to introduce original selvedge denim jeans to the world, triggered the replica jeans boom in the 1990s. Now, 45 years after its birth, the brand is loved by denim fans worldwide as a premium producer and has become a driving force in the industry. The brand’s appeal is celebrated in this publication, which introduces the history and evolution of D’Artisan through photos, technical details, and short texts. In addition, it also spotlights the brand’s craft, including denim weaving, sewing, and processing into garments.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Anna Resei - Enigmatic Refractions
Isbn 9788822922953
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 250963
€ 19.35
Designer Anna Resei’s research develops coherently and intensely in the interstice between digital computation and artisanal tradition, within a space of expression that combines the rigor of the functional performance with the poetic freedom to create forms of product and highly identifying decorative grammars – elements of an “augmented” aesthetic that invites one to rethink the relationship between body, object, and environment.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 23 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Carmen D’Apollonio - Salut, Ça Va? C’est Moi
Isbn 9788822924483
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 250960
€ 37.65
This publication appears with an eponymous exhibition at Friedman Benda, New York, considered Carmen D’Apollonio’s most ambitious body of work to date. Through the presented works, the Swiss-born, Los Angeles-based artist enhances her signature ludic spirit. D’Apollonio rejects formal design formats, employing her illuminated creations to elicit emotion, question our humanity, and rethink how we interact with one another. Moreover, D’Apollonio’s engagement with new materials expands her dimensionality and results in a new level of visual storytelling. The book features a conversation with the artist alongside various installation views and shots of her workspace.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, English
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List of animal displaying homosexual behaviours · Beetles (poster)
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Publisher Cthulhu Books
Idea code 250791
€ 16.15
On Thursday October 12, 2006, the Museum of Natural History at the University of Oslo opened the first exhibition dedicated to gay animals, curated by Geir Soeli. Today, we know that homosexuality is a common and widespread phenomenon in the animal world. Not only short-term sexual intercourse, but also long-term relations; associations that can even last a lifetime. The exhibit featured a small selection of the nearly 1,500 species in which homosexuality has been observed. The fascinating story of the secret life of animals was told through models, photos, texts and specimens. This poster lists dozens of these animal species, from giraffes and penguins to dolphins and beetles, serving as both an educational tool and a powerful visual reminder of the diversity of natural behavior across the animal kingdom.
1 , ills colour, 50 x 70 cm, poster, English
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List of animal displaying homosexual behaviours · Dolphin (poster)
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Publisher Cthulhu Books
Idea code 250792
€ 16.15
On Thursday October 12, 2006, the Museum of Natural History at the University of Oslo opened the first exhibition dedicated to gay animals, curated by Geir Soeli. Today, we know that homosexuality is a common and widespread phenomenon in the animal world. Not only short-term sexual intercourse, but also long-term relations; associations that can even last a lifetime. The exhibit featured a small selection of the nearly 1,500 species in which homosexuality has been observed. The fascinating story of the secret life of animals was told through models, photos, texts and specimens. This poster lists dozens of these animal species, from giraffes and penguins to dolphins and beetles, serving as both an educational tool and a powerful visual reminder of the diversity of natural behavior across the animal kingdom.
1 , ills colour, 50 x 70 cm, poster, English
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List of animal displaying homosexual behaviours · Swans (poster)
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Publisher Cthulhu Books
Idea code 250793
€ 16.15
On Thursday October 12, 2006, the Museum of Natural History at the University of Oslo opened the first exhibition dedicated to gay animals, curated by Geir Soeli. Today, we know that homosexuality is a common and widespread phenomenon in the animal world. Not only short-term sexual intercourse, but also long-term relations; associations that can even last a lifetime. The exhibit featured a small selection of the nearly 1,500 species in which homosexuality has been observed. The fascinating story of the secret life of animals was told through models, photos, texts and specimens. This poster lists dozens of these animal species, from giraffes and penguins to dolphins and beetles, serving as both an educational tool and a powerful visual reminder of the diversity of natural behavior across the animal kingdom.
1 , ills colour, 50 x 70 cm, poster, English
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Birds of America Postcards 1827-1838
Isbn 9782380362565
Publisher Reliefs Editions
Idea code 250888
€ 13.15
These twelve plates are part of the 435 engravings that make up the masterpiece of John James Audubon (1785–1851), The Birds of America, published by subscription in England between 1827 and 1838. The naturalist’s watercolors, based on birds he observed and hunted along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, were reproduced as aquatints and hand-colored, giving them not only scientific value but also remarkable aesthetic qualities. The birds are depicted life-size, in a format of approximately 98 × 66 cm, making the first ornithologist of the New World also the creator of the largest antiquarian illustrated book in the world. The work earned him membership in the Royal Society of London.
12 p, ills colour, 11 x 15 cm, postcard, French/English
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Comets and Aerolites (1879) Map
Isbn 9782380362466
Publisher Reliefs Editions
Idea code 250890
€ 18.40
Eleventh of the twelve plates from Astronomie populaire ou description des corps célestes avec atlas en tableaux transparents composé de 12 planches coloriées à l’usage des gens du monde. This carefully revised fifth edition, published in 1879 by the Franco-Belgian publisher Kiessling, charts nine comets recorded between 1577 and 1835, as well as two “aerolite showers” from the 1830s.
1 , ills colour, 18 x 33 cm, poster, French/English
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