Rivista di astronomia e scienze affini, 1908, a. 2, n. 12 (December)
A December 1908 issue of an Italian astronomy journal, the Rivista di astronomia e scienze affini, issued by the Società astronomica italiana and the Turin astronomical observatory for amateur and professional astronomers. The pictures are plain black-and-white trade illustrations of instruments: a heavy equatorial telescope mount, a surveyor's theodolite on a tripod base, a man sighting a large brass telescope on a stand, and a printed advertisement for Italian-made refracting telescopes with price lists. A designer could draw on their precise, engineered line work and the ornate lettering of the advertisement.
