This is the job of the national library. They keep every book printed in your nation for unlimited time. In the US that seems to be the Library of Congress, so they should have the book you miss.
Does it have the plates? There is a long list of names at the end, maybe that's them.
God sometimes I love the internet. I can only imagine how hard it was to do scientific research before, when the journals were all paper and you had to get the library to search articles for you. Now it takes me a few minutes to access anything. Or most of it at least. We have to work on that.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress