Methode analytique des fossiles, fonde´e sur leurs caracte`res exterieurs

by Henri Struve

$2,500 · Offered by Ursus Books

STRUVE, Henri. Methode analytique des fossiles, fondee sur leurs caracteres exterieurs. xii, 174 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of hand-coloured plates. 4to, 120 x 191 mm, contemporary calf. Paris: Chez Henry Tardieu , 1797. An interesting eighteenth-century study on minerals which includes an attempt to classify mineral colours. Spine rubbed, but overall an attractive.....

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