Author: Bauer, M. [H.]
Title: Edelsteinkunde. Eine allgemein verständliche Darstellung der Eigenschaften, des Vorkommens und der Verwendung der Edelsteine nebst einer Anleitung zur Bestimmung derselben für Mineralogen, Steinschleifer, Juweliere Etc.
Description: Leipzig, Chr. Herm. Tauchnitz 1896. 4to (27.8 x 18.8 cm). xvi, 711 pp., 20 fine plates, partly chromolithographed and tissue-guarded; 94 text engravings. Later half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with morocco label with gilt title. = A nice copy of the rare first edition of this authorative and well-illustrated book on mineralogy and in particular gemology by the German mineralogist and professor at the Universities of Königsberg and Marburg, Max Hermann Bauer (1844-1917). Showing raw and cut minerals. This work went through several editions. Rebacked. Very light, marginal spotting to the endpapers and frontispiece, otherwise a very good, clean and unmarked copy. Sinkansas, 472.

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