Histoire elementaire des mineraux usuels ... Deuxieme edition

by Jean Reynaud

$150 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Paris: L. Hachette et Cie, 1867. 12mo, pp. 4 , iii, 1 , 311, 1 ; composite color lithograph frontispiece, 2 other composite lithographs 1color ; original pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt on both covers and spine; a very good, bright, and sound copy. Scarce. This apparently popular work in France intended to describe the economic minerals and containing two hand-colored plates of minerals specimens and crystals. The text was a reedited from the

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