[Rarebooks] fa: GEOLOGY & MINERALOGY 1822-39 - On BRAZILIAN TOPAZ - TERTIARY FORMATIONS etc.

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, along with other antiquarian scientific works, auction ending Sunday, September 22. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching under the seller name arch_in_la.

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Thanks again,
Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.


David Brewster: On the Distribution of the Colouring Matter, and on certain peculiarities in the Structure and Optical Properties of the Brazilian Topaz. 1822. [BOUND WITH] D. T. Ansted: On a Portion of the Tertiary Formations of Switzerland. 1839. [BOUND WITH] S. P. Rigaud: On the Relative Quantities of Land and Water on the Surface of the Terraqueous Globe. 1837. [Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, 1827, 1842, 1836.] Three separate papers, extracted from broken volumes of the Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society and bound in modern olive-green french wraps; 4to (28 x 22 cm); p. 1-9; 141-152; 289-300 (34 pp. total), plus a colored plate, in-text illustrations.

Three treatises related to geology and mineralogy, the first accompanied by a charming hand-colored plate, one of the few we've encountered in the Cambridge Transactions. Mild toning, a few light spots to the first few leaves, otherwise clean and sound and firmly bound in fresh modern wraps.