Encyclopedia of source illustrations.
Subtitle: A portable picture library of 5000 steel engravings, illustrating in systematic arrangement the fields of mathematics and astronomy, physics and meteorology, chemistry, mineralogy and geology, botany, zoology, anthropology and surgery, geography and planography, history and ethnology.
By: Edited by Johann Georg Heck. With a descriptive index to the plates, glossaries and an analytical introduction.
Contributors: Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
Publisher: Morgan & Morgan
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y
Language: eng
Subjects: Engraving -- Specimens
Genres: Specimens
Work titles: Iconographic encyclopaedia of science, literature, and art
Notes: Reprinting of the 500 plates that appear in the Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature and Art, Philadelphia, 1851. This was under the editorship of Spencer Fullerton Baird. This book in turn was an "Anglicized" edition of the great Bilder Atlas of Brockhaus