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Lot 76 of 522:
An Elementary Treatise on Mineralogy and Geology 1822  

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$180
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Title:
An Elementary Treatise on Mineralogy and Geology, Being an Introduction to the Study of These Sciences, and Designed for the Use of Pupils, - For Persons, Attending Lectures on These Subjects, - and as a Companion for Travellers in the United States of America

Author:
Cleaveland, Parker

Place:
Boston

Publisher:
Cummings & Hilliard

Date:
1822

Description:

Two volumes in one. vii, 480; [2], [481]-818, [1] pp. Hand-colored folding map and 5 folding copper-engraved plates. 22x12 cm (9x5¼"), period full tree calf, morocco title label. Second Edition.

Second edition of the first important mineralogical text published in the United States, with the scarce map. Sabin 13611.


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Condition:
Wear and scuffing to calf; scattered foxing with faint foxing to plates, early ownership signatures to title page and blanks at front; about very good.


 
Item number:
303480
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