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Beck, L. C.

Mineralogy of New York. Comprising detailed descriptions of the minerals hitherto found in the State of New-York, and notices of their uses in the arts and agriculture.

100,00 €

Schierenberg Bookshop Antiquariaat

(Amsterdam, Países Bajos)

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Beck, L. C.

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Albany, NY, D. Appleton and Wiley & Putnam, 1842. 4to (28.8 x 23.1 cm). 561 pp. [xxiv, 537]; eight engraved plates and maps, 533 woodcuts. Original embossed cloth. Spine with gilt title. Front board with large, gilt vignette. Yellow endpapers. = A well-illustrated mineralogical monograph. Most of the 533 text illustrations are figured twice; with the descriptive text, and again in a long table, on 33 full-page "plates", occupying pp. 461-525. Pictorial bookplate "He serves all who dares to be true" of Marie Russell, dated 1905 mounted on the front pastedown. Some chipping to spine ends and hinges (this cover is prone to chipping, but this copy is much less affected than usual); some mild foxing, but mostly clean and in all a very good copy. Rare outside the US.
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