The Celestial Cabinet - A Limited Collection

For as long as there have been people, they have looked up and written down what they saw. The Celestial Cabinet is that record: three illustrated newspapers, a fold-out map of the sky, and a small archive of paper ephemera, tracing thirty-five centuries of human curiosity — from a bronze disc buried on a German hilltop to the first photograph of a black hole.

Limited to 100 numbered copies. Once they're gone, this collection will not be reprinted.

What's inside:

• ✦ Three illustrated newspapers — The Known Heavens, Beyond the Visible, and Into the Dark

  ✦ A fold-out map of the night sky

  ✦ Three photocards and three bookmarks

  ✦ A sheet of nine celestial stickers

  ✦ Seventeen junk journal pieces, including a handwritten observer's letter

  ✦ A numbered authenticity card

Everything arrives wrapped in a printed vellum band, inside a black envelope lined with a map of the stars.

Written to be read

Every story in these pages is true. The newspapers are written in plain language — no background in astronomy needed — and every date, figure, and name is drawn from the historical record. You'll meet the Babylonian scribes who watched the sky for six hundred years without missing a month, the Harvard astronomer who worked out how to measure the universe, and the spacecraft still travelling outward with a golden record bolted to its side.

The details

Each collection is individually numbered from 1 to 100.

Images shown are design proofs of the finished pieces.