Didnt recogize the english title before i read this comment and it immediately clicked. The copy i have is from the late 80s and even then it was a bit dated, but it didnt matter. Awesome book.
Now 35 years later my kids and I sometimes spend hours looking through the same book.
Even more dated now, but that probably makes it even more amazing for them and now they know how a tape recorder works \o/
I spent hours as a kid, slowly parsing, contextualizing, researching every iota and minutiae of that book.
I had an encyclopedia just to help supplement that book.