Pop-up book
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A pop-up book is any book with three-dimensional pages, often with elements that pop up as a page is turned. The terminology serves as an umbrella term for movable book, pop-ups, tunnel books, transfo
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Metamorphosis (a Harlequinades booklet), 1814 by Benjamin Sands
Comparison of two of Benjamin Sands's transformation books: Metamorphosis
Page with pop-up part in Thomas Malton the Elder's book Treatise on Perspective (1775).
Astronomicum Caesareum
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Astronomicum Caesareum is a book by Petrus Apianus first published in 1540.
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…of Virginia Commonwealth University's James Branch Cabell Library. Volvelles are paper constructions with rotating parts. An early example is the Astronomicum Caesareum, by Petrus Apianus, which was made for the Holy Roman Emperor Charles in 1540. The book is full of nested circular pieces revolving on grommets. About…
Cover page of the 1540 edition