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Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909, Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914, joint author · 1881 · New York, H. Holt and Company · 124 pictures

An 1881 American astronomy textbook by Simon Newcomb and Edward S. Holden, published by Henry Holt in New York for high school and college students. Plates combine flat diagrams of relative planetary sizes in white-on-black with dense wood-engraved views of lunar craters, offering designers stark negative-space circle charts, labelled scale bars, and heavily hatched rocky terrain.

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