Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin
A transactions volume of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, published in Berlin in 1822 by the Realschul-Buchhandlung for a scholarly readership. Its plates are hand-coloured natural-history drawings: microscopic protists and ciliates in the first, green-celled spheres and flagellates in the second, fossil-like bone and tooth fragments in the third, and plant tissue and spore sections in the fourth, rendered in soft washes on cream paper. A designer could draw on the delicate botanical and microscopic linework and the muted earth-toned palette for scientific or vintage pattern work.
