Live auction - Lot 299
[Mineralogy]
Minéralogie à l'usage des gens du monde, contenant les caractères qui servent à reconnaître les minéraux et à les distinguer les uns des autres [...] Avec dix planches en taille-douce.
Paris, Wid. Lepetit [= Aimée Grassot], 1813
€ 120 / 150
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Lot description
8vo: 533 pp.; 10 pl. (some light foxing throughout).
Contemp. half calf over marbled boards, flat spine with sl. later handwritten label, yellow edges (boards rubbed).
Rare popular work on mineralogy by the French naturalist and journalist J.-B. Pujoulx (1762-1821). Ill. with 10 engr., numbered pl. incl. front. The front. depicts the famous "Grottes d'Arcy" and the pl. display numerous figures of agates, moss agates, and other figured stones.
Ref. Sinkankas 5289.