Illustrierte Mineralogie

by Gustav Adolf Kenngott

$450 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Esslingen und Munchen: J. F. Schreiber, ca 1890 . 4to, pp. 8 , 74, 4 ; text in double column; 24 composite chromolithograph plates; original pictorial paper covered boards, backed in red cloth; endpapers renewed, else near fine. In 1858, Johann Gottlob Kurr published Das Mineralreich in Bildern, a very popular book that beautifully illustrated minerals on 25 color plates. After Kurr's death, Kenngott appropriated authorship and the result were ... four

• Binding: Hardcover

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