Descrizione

Paris, Dunod, 1874. Thick 8vo (23.3 x 14.9 cm). xix, xii, 668 pp.; 96 text engravings, one large, folded plate with spectra. 20th-century full cloth. Spine with red morocco label with gilt title and gilt stippled lines. Patterned endpapers. Original printed front wrappers bound in. = First French translation of major work (in second edition) on blow-pipe anaysis of minerals, written by the American mineralogist and mining engineer Henry Bedinger Cornwall (1844-1917), originally titled Manual of blowpipe analysis, qualitative and quantitative, with a complete System of determinative mineralogy. The translation is by J. Thoulet- probably the geologist, oceanographer, and hydrographer Marie Julien Olivier Thoulet (1843-1936), who later explored Newfoundland and became "the father of French oceanography". A few pencilled annotations; otherwise, a very good, clean copy.