J.G. Heck - Hecks Iconographic Encyclopedia of Sciences, Literature and Art: Pictorial Archive of Nature and Science v. 3

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Translated from the German, with Additions, and Edited by Spencer F. Baird, A.M. M.D., Professor of Natural Sciences in Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA. Illustrated by Five Hundred Steel Plates, Containing Upwards of Twelve Thousand Engravings, originally published by Rudolph Garrigue, Publisher, New York, in 1851. The table of contents has been slightly rearranged for this edition. DOVER Pictorial Archive SERIES This book belongs to the Dover Pictorial Archive Series.

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Selections] Hecks pictorial archive of natural and science / edited by J.G. Heck. p. cm. (Dover pictorial archive series) A selection of engravings from the 1851 English ed., entitled Iconographic encyclopaedia of science, literature, and art, which was a translation of J.G. Hecks Bilder Atlas zum Conversations Lexicon.

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