Smith's illustrated astronomy : designed for the use of the public or common schools in the United States ; illustrated with numerous original diagrams
A mid-nineteenth-century American schoolbook on astronomy, compiled by Asa Smith and published in New York in 1849 for use in public and common schools. The single plate is a star chart of the visible heavens from July to October, shown as a circle of white stars and constellation lines on a dark ground, with a labelled star-magnitude key at lower left; a designer could draw on its clean radial composition and dotted-line curves for scientific or celestial graphics.
