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The first work "to present the previously isolated and seemingly disconnected facts of natural history in a generally intelligible form".
This section has many aspects; An overview of the Content;
- Marble, Plaster, Stones composed of Vitreous materials & calcareous substances, Vegetable Earth, Earth Charcoal,..
- Bitumen, Martial Pyrite, Sulphur, Salts, Vitriolic Acid, Vitriols, Pebble Liquor, Alum, Alkalis, Sea Salt, Nitre, Ammoniac Salt, Borax,
- Iron, Gold,
- Metallic concretions (Iron, Volfran, Iron Mine, Hematites, Sandstone, Armenian Stone, Tin, Lead, Mercury, Antimony, Zinc, Platinum) Volcanic Products, Basalts, touchstone...
- Treaty of the Magnet and its Uses -
M. Le Comte De Buffon - Natural History of Minerals - 1783 - Volume II, III, IV, VII & IX -
392 + lxii + vi + 471 + 365 + xxxvii + 256 + xii + 288 pages -
Correct condition of the bindings, works in their period full brown leather, some lacks on the crowns and the covers, small work of worms on the spines, decorated spine, marbled edges, titles and volume numbers gilded on pieces of morocco, the front cover of the Treaty of the Magnet is united but united because of the multiple gaps on the right bit -
Good condition inside, light soiling, pretty headbands, lamp ends, marbled flyleaves -
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