ebooks Children's Fashions 1900-1950 As Pictured in Sears Catalogs (Dover Fashion and Costumes) by From Dover Publications in Arts-Photography

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Based on J. G. Hecks Bilder Atlas zum Convenations Lexicon; published in German in the nineteenth century; the Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science; Literature; and Art was a monumental six-volume compilation of illustrations and information; covering an enormous range of subjects; from architecture to zoology. Among its most remarkable features were the thousands of superb steel engravings; comprising one of the most extensive pictorial archives ever published in a single work.The present book; one of three separate and independent volumes based on the rare original American edition of 1851; is devoted to nature and science. Over 170 beautifully reproduced plates contain thousands of illustrations depicting an extraordinary array of subjects: mathematical and geometrical problems; surveying instruments; astronomical maps; and instruments; planetary systems according to Ptolemy; the Egyptians; Copernicus; and others; positions of the planets; botanical illutrations of scores of plants mdash; including seed pods; fruits; and other parts; physical and meteorological illustration demonstrating many laws and principles; numerous types of physical and chemical apparatus; animals; minerals; fossils; geological formations; human anatomy; and many other images. A descriptive table of contents is keyed to numbered illustrations on each plate.Artists; illustrators; and anyone in need of precisely rendered; royalty-free science or nature illustrations will welcome this practically inexhaustible wealth of immediately usable art.