The History of Mineral Collecting 1530-1799. With Notes on Twelve Hundred Early Mineral Collectors

by Mineralogy

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First edition

By Wendell E. Wilson. Plates in color & many facsimiles in the text. 264 pp. Large 4to, orig. cloth over boards. Tucson: The Mineralogical Record, 1994.First edition, hard-bound issue, of this extremely important and useful history of mineral collecting. This is the best book on the subject. Well indexed. Out-of-print.

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