Essai De Cristallographie Ou Description Des Figures Geometriques Propres A Differens Corps Du

by Jean Baptiste Louis Rome De L Isle

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First edition

Paris: Didot jeune and Knapen & Delaguette, 1772. First edition, a magnificent and very rare large paper copy both larger and printed on thicker paper than the octavo issue , of one of the fundamental works of modern crystallography; it appeared 12 years before Haüy’s Essai d’une Théorie sur la Structure des Cristaux. Romé de L’Isle established that various shapes of crystals of the same

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