Iconographic encyclopaedia of science, literature, and art.
By: 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 to twelve thousand engravings.
Contributors: Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887, ed.
Publisher: R. Garrigue
Published: 1851
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; ger
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Notes: Atlas in ten "divisions," each of which, except the 4th, has special t.-p.
"Text ... is based upon the well-known 'Bilder atlas zum conversations lexicon' ... The second volume ... has been entirely rewritten."--Pref.
Table of contents: title: I. Mathematics and astronomy, physics and meteorology, chemistry, mineralogy, geognosy and geology.; title: II. Botany, zoology, anthropology, and surgery.; title: III. Geography and planography, history and ethnology, military sciences, naval sciences.; title: IV. Architecture, mythology, the fine arts, technology.; title: Plates. 2v.