Information about a 2011 exhibit of the history of paper pop up books.
https://library.si.edu/digital-libra...eering-pop-ups
Paper Engineering: Fold, Pull, Pop & Turn | National Museum of American History
On of the earliest pop up books was the 1570 English translation of Euclid's Geometry. The pop ups provided 3D illustrations of principles of geometry.
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https://www.maa.org/press/periodical...ingsley-euclid
https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbc0001...p=4&st=gallery
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One of the books featured in the exhibition, A Suit of Armor for Youth 1824, can be bought or downloaded, though, unfortunately the download does not have the color plate of the actual book.
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Boo...SABEgKMpPD_BwE
or
https://archive.org/details/asuitarm...imgoog/page/n4
This is a video of a pop up book by a famous Czech pop up artist, Vojtěch Kubašta
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