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Iconographic encyclopædia of science, literature, and art / systematically arranged by J. G. Heck ; translated from the German, with additions, and edited by Spencer F. Baird ... illustrated by five hundred steel plates, containing upwards of twelve thousand engravings ...
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1864 Heck
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heck, J. G. (Johann Georg), -1857.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- 4 v. 26 cm. 2 v. atlas plates, maps, (part fold.) 25 x 31 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : D. Appleton, 1864, [c1849]
- Contents:
- I. Mathematics and astronomy, physics and meteorology, chemistry, mineralogy, geognosy and geology.
- II. Botany, zoology, anthropology, and surgery.
- III. Geography and planography, history and ethnology, military sciences, naval sciences.
- IV. Architecture, mythology, the fine arts, technology..
- Plates. 2 v.
- Notes:
- Atlas in ten "divisions," each of which has special t.-p.
- "Text ... is based upon the well-known ʻBilder atlas zum conversations lexiconʾ ... The second volume ... has been entirely rewritten."--Pref.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Exhibited: "Firstival: First Aerial Voyage," at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 2026.
- Athenaeum copy: Gift: Heirs of T. H. Morris.
- OCLC:
- 5694680
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