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Milan, Giovanni Pirotta, 1819. In 8°. Half-title, title page, with 3 large, folded, outside-the-text intaglio plates reproducing 66 figures and tables with the physical characteristics of the gems, slight foxing, contemporary half-leather binding, gold titles on the spine, minor defects and signs of aging.
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First Italian edition of this famous gemological treatise written by René-Just Haüy, today considered one of the founders of crystallography and scientific mineralogy.
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