Cosmos : essai d'une description physique du monde
Alexander von Humboldt's Cosmos, a survey of the physical world for general educated readers, issued in French by C. Turati in Milan in 1846 with contributions from astronomer Hervé Faye and naturalist Armand de Quatrefages. The plates here are ruled letterpress tables of star names, photometric and ordinary magnitudes, parallaxes, orbital periods and observers' names, useful as ready-made grid structures, Greek-letter and numeric type specimens, and models for dense multi-column data setting.
