Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin
A set of Berlin academy transactions published in 1822 by the Realschul-Buchhandlung, issued by the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences for scholars of astronomy. The pictures are plain black star-field plates in which white four-pointed and eight-pointed stars, small dots and ringed circles sit on dark grey ground, showing how celestial charts were drawn for print. A designer could take from them a sparse, high-contrast night-sky pattern built from simple star symbols on a dark field.
