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BERGMAN,
Torbern Olof (1735-1784).
Manuel du minéralogiste … Nouvelle édition, considérablement
augmentée, par J. C. Delamétherie.
Paris: chez Cuchet, 1792.
Collation:
2 volumes 8vo, pp. cxx 359; [2] 443, woodcut headpieces.
Plates:
2 engraved plates: first numbered Pl. I, signed ‘Sellier sc.’ (second
state of plate in 1784 edition), second unnumbered and unsigned (single
page and foldout, both bound at the end of vol. II).
Condition:
192 x 118mm. Prelims of vol. I foxed, minor foxing elswhere, but
generally a good fresh copy.
Binding:
Contemporary mottled sheep, flat spines with gilt bands and red
title labels, marbled end leaves, yellow edges. Rubbed, volume number
labels missing.
Provenance:
Engraved armorial bookplate ‘Freyherr von Heoller Bertram’; W. A.
Smeaton (1925–2001), no ownership marks.
References:
Moström 293; Cole 111;
Ward and Carozzi 179.
Price:
£450
Second edition in French, considerably enlarged with notes by J.C. de
La Metherie (1743–1817) including his classification of minerals (vol.
II, pp. 384–405); a translation, first published in 1784, by Jean André
Mongez (1751–88), of Bergman’s Sciagraphia (1782).
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