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by Jean Baptiste Louis Rome De Lisle

$6,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

Engraved allegorical frontis. by Augustin Saint-Aubin. xxxii, 299, 5 pp. 8vo, orig. wrappers, uncut. Paris: Didot & Knapen, 1773. First edition, and a lovely copy in original state, of an uncommon book; this is one of Romé’s first publications. It is a description “of the metallic ores of his own mineral cabinet, in which he discussed the origin, metamorphosis, and paragenesis of each.”–D.S.B., XI, p. 521. Earlier, he had catalogued the

• Binding: Wrappers

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