Essai de Cristallographie ou Description de figures Geometriques propres a differens Corps du Regne Mineral ...

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Paris: Didot jeune et Knapen & Delaguette 1772. Orig. full mottled calf attractively rebacked in gilt compartments with raised spine bands and morocco titling-label. Marbled end-papers. (xxxii 430pp.). With 2 fold. engrv. tables 10 fold. engrv. plates and engrv. head & tailpiece vignettes. Fine crisp copy. 1st ed. Complete. NOTE: The author was the celebrated French mineralogist and discoverer of the law (law of constant angles) that the angles between the various faces of a crystal remain unchanged throughout its growth.