L'Espace céleste et la nature tropicale, description physique de l'univers ... préface de M. Babinet, dessins de Yan' Dargent
Emmanuel Liais's 1866 French account of the heavens and tropical nature, prefaced by the physicist Jacques Babinet and illustrated by Yan' Dargent, published in Paris for a general reading public. The 238 wood engravings mix telescopic studies of lunar craters with atmospheric effects and Brazilian landscapes and jungle interiors, offering dense tonal hatching, radiating light-ray patterns, and tangled vegetation silhouettes usable as textures and skies.
