Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin
This is a volume of transactions from the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, published in Berlin in 1822 by the Realschul-Buchhandlung for scholars of natural philosophy. The pictures are plain engraved and drawn plates: one a geometric diagram of lines and labelled points, one a pale ink drawing of a fossil insect pressed into a slab, and one a black silhouette figure scene on an orange ground. A designer might take from them the clean diagram linework, the tonal fossil rendering, and the stark two-colour silhouette contrast.
