Live auction - Lot 637
[Mineralogy]
Traité élémentaire de minéralogie.
Paris, Verdière, 1830-1832
€ 250 / 350
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Lot description
2 vol., 8vo: xvi-752 pp.; 11 pl., [4]-797 pp.; 12 pl. (pl. 13 in 2nd vol. missing, some min. spotting).
Contemp. marbled calf, gilt decor. border on covers, gilt orn. flat spines, red leather title labels, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. Good copy.
Later ed. of this important manual of mineralogy by the French geologist François-Sulpice Beudant (1787-1850). Ill. with folding tables in-text and 23 folding pl.
Ref. BnF. - Not in Sinkankas.
Joined: Id. - Traité élémentaire de physique [...]. Paris, Verdière, 1833. 8vo: [2]-x-700 pp.; 14 pl. Same binding. Later ed. of this manual on physics by Beudant. Ill. with 14 engr. pl. College of Mons prize book, prize awarded in 1836. Ref. Not in BnF.
Prov. Arthur Duval (prize on flyleaf). - College of Mons prize book, prize awarded in 1836. (3 vol.)