Description

Paris, Roret, 1862. 8vo (22.8 x 14.2 cm). 628 pp.Slightly later marbled wrappers with mounted pictorial title. = This work by the French mineralogist Gabriel Delafosse (1796-1878) was published as follows: I (1858). Notions préliminaires; II (1860). Classifications des minéraux; III (1862). Substances non combustibles avec table des matières and index ou table générale des espèces décrites dans les deux derniers volumes. The first part does not contain specific descriptions of minerals, the third part (this copy) contains the "non-flameable substances", i.e., mostly stony minerals. In the rear a seven page catalogue titled Catalogue des principaux obets et collections servant a l'enseignement des sciences minéralogique, géologique & paléontologique, available at the Comptoir miinéralogique et paléontologique Louis Saemann à Paris, with a nice engraved head piece showing a mesozoic landscape. Uncut. Some spotting, but generally in good condition.