Total Solar Eclipse Austrian Journal of Popular Astronomy Bookplate, c. 1876 clay bell This is an original antique

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Total Solar Eclipse Austrian Journal of Popular Astronomy Bookplate, c. 1876 clay bell This is an original antiqueThis 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".