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A System of Mineralogy, Formed Chiefly on The Plan of Cronstedt.
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A System of Mineralogy, Formed Chiefly on The Plan of Cronstedt

Schmeisser, J.G. · London

Author
Schmeisser, J.G.
Date
1795
Place
London
Publisher
Printed for C. Dilly
Language
English
Binding
8vo.(5" x 8.125") 2 volumes. Quarter brown leather with tiny corners over marbled boards. Spine with six compartments, gilt title to second copartment, gilt vol# within a gilt circle to the fifth compartment, all others with overall fancy gilt designs (see pic). All edges lightly speckled brown, marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate of William Norris to front pastedowns. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with tiny loss to some tips. Vol.II head of spine chipped with tiny loss. Covers soiled, rubbed. Intermittent foxing throughout. Illustrated with four full page plates to rear of Vol.II.
Format
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Schmeisser wrote the present work to provide students with an accurate textbook about mineralogy. As stated in the title, he relied principally on the theories of Cronstedt to develop his system of mineralogy, while also including a great amount of practical advice on the chemical analysis and description of minerals.
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S.I.6962

A System of Mineralogy, Formed Chiefly on The Plan of Cronstedt

Author: Schmeisser, J.G. (1767–1837)

8vo.(5" x 8.125")1795. Schmeisser, J.G. London. Printed for C. Dilly. 2 volumes. Quarter brown leather with tiny corners over marbled boards. Spine with six compartments, gilt title to second compartment, gilt vol# within a gilt circle to the fifth compartment, all others with overall fancy gilt designs (see pic). All edges lightly speckled brown, marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate of William Norris to front pastedowns. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with tiny loss to some tips. Vol.II head of spine chipped with tiny loss. Covers soiled, rubbed. Intermittent foxing throughout. Illustrated with four full page plates to rear of Vol.II.

From Wiki: Johann Gottfried Schmeisser FRS FRSE (1767–1837) was an 18th/19th century German traveller, pharmacist and mineralogist. On the recommendation of Joseph Banks he went to London where he befriended the botanist James Edward Smith and the surgeon John Hunter. He began lecturing in pharmacy and mineralogy in London. His first stay in Britain was seven years, approximately 1786 to 1793. He made a briefer return as a traveling companion to Caspar Voght in 1794/95. In 1794 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, his proposer being Joseph Banks. In 1795 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh during his tour of Scotland. His proposers were John Rotherham, Andrew Duncan, the elder, and William Wright.[1] He was also a member of the Linnean Society. He returned to the Altona region in 1796 to work as a pharmacist on the Baron's estate at Flottbek where the Baron built him a laboratory. Later in 1796 he accompanied the Baron's friend, Georg Sieveking on his trip to Paris, which was then still reeling from the French Revolution. In 1798 he accompanied Johann Georg Busch to the Harz in east Saxony, to Brunswick, Göttingen and Hanover. Publications: Lament a poem dedicated to the late Prince Leopold of Brunswick (1785) Mixed Poems and Essays (1785) The Current State of Sciences in France (1787) Syllabus of Lectures on Mineralogy (1794) A System of Mineralogy (1794)

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