HAIDINGER, Wilhelm.

Krystallographisch-mineralogische Figuren-Tafeln zu dem Handbuche der bestimmenden Mineralogie.

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15 folding lithographed plates. Title & one leaf of text (both folding). 8vo, orig. cloth-backed brown boards, printed label on upper cover. Vienna: Braumüller & Seidel, 1846. First edition. “Very rare. Published the year after Haidinger’s Handbuch der Bestimmenden Mineralogie, this rarely mentioned atlas shows all manner of crystallographical apparatus and many crystal diagrams. It was meant to accompany the Handbuch; however its rarity suggeststhat not many copies of the atlas were prepared.”–Schuh, Mineralogy & Crystallography: A Biobibliography, 1469 to 1920 (in progress), 2062. Haidinger (1795-1871), was a leading mineralogist and geologist who lived for several years in Edinburgh during the mid-1820s where he catalogued the well-known mineralogy collection of the banker Thomas Allan. After managing his family’s porcelain factory for many years, Haidinger was appointed an inspector of mines in Vienna in 1840. Fine copy in original state. ❧ D.S.B., VI, pp. 18-20. Poggendorff, I, 996-98.

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