Total Solar Eclipse Austrian Journal of Popular Astronomy Bookplate, c. 1876 figural candlestick 9 1/2" x 8

9 1/2" x 8

7 1/4" long x 1" wide x 3/4" deep

Ohio " at the center

It was purchased from an estate sale that included a wonderful collection of mid-century and contemporary ceramics from Japan

so plenty weighty to keep even a long row of big art books tightly upright

Total Solar Eclipse Austrian Journal of Popular Astronomy Bookplate, c. 1876 figural candlestick 9 1/2" x 8This is an antique color lithograph book plate from a volume of Zeitschrift fr populre Astronomi (Journal of Popular Astronomy), published by Lith Anst, Graz (Austria), c. 1876. The image itself was created by Rudolf Falb (1838 1903), an Austrian popularizer of natural history, who also popularized the concept of extraterrestrial influences on geophysical phenomena! The eclipsed sun is jet black, with super rich red for the solar flares. 8 7 8"" x 6".