Dana, James Dwight (1837)

A | System Of Mineralogy: | Including An Extended | Treatise On Crystallography: | With An Appendix, Containing The | Application Of Mathematics | To | Crystallographic Investigation, | And A | Mineralogical Bibliography. | With Two Hundred And Fifty Wood Cuts, And Four Copper Plates, Containing One | Hundred And Fifty Additional Figures. | By James Dwight Dana, A.M. | Assistant In The Department Of Chemistry, Mineralogy, And Geology, In Yale | College; Member Of The Yale Nat. Hist. Soc.; Of The Conn. Acad. Sci.; | Corresponding Member Of Acad. Nat. Sci. Of Philadelphia, | And Of The Lyceum Of Nat. Hist. Of New York. | [rule] | "Hæc studia nobiscum peregrinantur, rusticantur." | [rule] | New Haven: | Published By Durrie & Peck and Herrick & Noyes. | Hitchcock & Stafford, Printers. | [rule] | 1837.

Collation: Collation: 8° in 4s: π³ B⁴ 1-18⁴ 19*⁴ 19-56⁴ 57² App.-A-App.-O⁴; [3] iv-xiv [1] 2-144 *145-152* [1] 146-452 [2] 3-119 [1] p., 4 plates

Plates: 4 plates (2 folding) numbered: "Plate I.-IV.", plates I and II unsigned, plates III and IV signed: "GE. Sherman, Sc."

Page size: 138 x 226 mm

Binding: contemporary calf, spine rebacked, gilt lettering on spine label

Provenance: no marks of provenance

Other editions: 1844, 1850, 1854, 1868, 1892 and 1893 (Issue B)

References: Hoover 247; Schuh 1273

Collection: private collection