The planetary and stellar worlds: a popular exposition of the great discoveries and theories of modern astronomy
A popular astronomy lecture series by American astronomer Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel, published by C. Scribner in New York in 1852 for general readers following the era's telescopic discoveries. Numbered plates print nebulae and comets as pale stipple on solid black grounds, giving designers reversed-out star fields, faint spiral and ring shapes, and engraved script plate labels.
