Encyclopedia of source illustrations.
By: Comprising all of the 266 plates contained in the above sections of the Iconographic encyclopaedia of 1851.  Edited by Johann Georg Heck.  With a descriptive index to the plates, glossaries and an analytical introduction.
Contributors: Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887., ed.
Publisher: Morgan & Morgan
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y
Language: eng
Subjects: Engraving -- Specimens.; Science -- Pictorial works.; Literature -- Pictorial works.; Art -- Pictorial works.; Atlases.
Work titles: Iconographic encyclopaedia of science, literature, and art
Notes: A portable picture library of 5000 steel engravings, illustrating in systematic arrangement the mineralogy and geology, botany, zoology, anthroplogy and surgery, geography and planography, history and ethnology.

Reprinting of the 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.

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