Author: Brard, C. P.
Title: Nouveaux élémens de minéralogie ou manuel du minéralogiste voyageur, contenant des notions élémentaires; la description de toutes les espèces minérales connues, avec leurs principaux usages; l'art de former des collections de minéraux; dix itinéraires minéralogiques en France; et l'explication des termes techniques. Seconde édition. Revue et considérablement augmentée.
Description: Paris, Méquignon-Marvis, 1824. 8vo (20.3 x 12.5 cm). xi, 686 pp.; one folded engraved plate. Contemporary half calf over tree-calf-resembling boards. Spine with elaborate gilt ornamental bands and vignettes, and red morocco label with gilt title. Edges yellow, sprinkled with red. = Second, enlarged and updated edition of a work by the mineralogist and conchologist Cyprien Prosper Brard (1786-1838). The first edition was published as Manuel du minéralogiste et du géologue voyageur (1805). Dedicated to Lacépède. Provenance: on the front pastedown a mineralogical bookplate of the French mineralogist and professor at the École des Mines, Claude Jean Guy Guillemin (1923-1994), who was a co-founder of the International Mineralogical Association. Scattered light spotting, somewhat more so towards the endpapers and on the plate, otherwise a good copy in a very attracive binding. Ward and Carozzi, 304.

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