Brauns, Reinhard Anton (1903)
Das | Mineralreich | Von | Dr. Reinhard Brauns, | ordentl. Professor an der Universität Giessen. | [ornate rule] | Mit vielen Text-Illustrationen | 73 Farbentafeln, 14 Lichtdrucktafeln und 4 Kunstdrucktafeln. | [Ornament] | Stuttgart | Fritz Lehmann, Verlag | 1903.
Collation: 4°: π2 [14] 2-564; [4] [5] 6-440 [8] p., 91 plates (including frontispiece plate)
Plates: frontispiece (numbered 87) and 90 plates (73 in chromolithography) with printed tissue guards, numbered: "1-82" (+ 2a, 3a, 28a, 29a, 32a, 40a, 58a, 61a)
Page size: 210 x 285 mm
Binding: publishers half leather over cloth, calf corners, with gilt lettering on front and back cover
Provenance: no marks of provenance
Other editions: 1912 (Issue B), 1923 (Issue C); Russian (1904), Italian (1905), Czech (1905) and English (1908-12) translations. As at a certain point the publication was taken over by J.F. Schreiber, some copies will bear a label stating "Esslingen und München | Verlag von J.F. Schreiber | 1903" pasted over the original imprint (see Sinkankas 903)
References: Schuh 805, Sinkankas 903
Collection: private collection
