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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.
Contributor:
Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887, ed.
American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)
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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