De distributione geographica plantarum secundum cœli temperiem et altitudinem montium, prolegomena
A Latin scientific treatise by Alexander von Humboldt, printed in Paris in 1817, on how plants are distributed by climate and mountain altitude. Its pictures are tables of temperature, latitude and altitude figures set in ruled columns, with dense black type and no decoration, useful to a designer for the rigid grid, rule lines and typographic hierarchy of early nineteenth-century data layouts.
