Dana, Edward Salisbury (1906)

The System | Of | Mineralogy | of | James Dwight Dana | 1837—1868 | [rule] | Descriptive Mineralogy | Sixth Edition | Fourth Thousand | by | Edward Salisbury Dana | Professor Of Physics And Curator Of The Mineral Collection, Yale University | Entirely Rewritten And Much Enlarged | Illustrated with over 1400 figures | [rule] | "Hæc studia nobiscum peregrinantur—rusticantur" | [rule] | With Appendix I, Completing The Work To 1899 | New York | John Wiley & Sons | London: Chapman & Hall, Limited |1906
Appendix 1 (1906): First Appendix | To The | Sixth Edition | Of | Dana’s System Of Mineralogy | By | Edward S. Dana | Professor Of Physics And Curator Of Mineralogy Yale University | Completing The Work To 1899 | New York | John Wiley & Sons | London: Chapman & Hall, Limited | 1906

Collation: 4°: [2] iii-lxiii [1] [1] 2-1134 p.; Appendix 1: 8°: [2] iii-x [1] 2-75 [1 blank] p.

Plates: over 1400 text figures

Page size: 167 x 251 mm

Binding: publishers half leather over cloth

Provenance: inscription "L.K. Kennedy | 27-7th Avenue | San Francisco"

Other editions: 1837, 1844, 1850, 1854, 1868, 1892 (issue A) and 1893 (issue B); appendix 1: 1899 (1st issue)

References: Schuh 1263 (issue A) & 1264 (Appendix 1, 1st issue)

Collection: private collection