More photos of the Industrial Arts Encyclopedia

Ex libris A. Koltchak, Paris, 1900: Dictionaire, Encyclopedique et Biographique de L'Industrie et Des Arts Industriels.

I picked up this 8 volume encyclopedia yesterday. It was printed from 1880-86 in Paris and appears to be in near new condition! it's incredibly interesting and loaded w/ thousands of beautiful graphics of every type of technology and science i can think of. It must have been very expensive in it's day. I'll post some more photos from it later, because so many of them are so fascinating. Nothing has ever made me recall my french like this set of books has done in such a short time!

it's not really a dictionary, but it is an encyclopedia of industrial arts from the beaux arts period.