Mawe, John (1826)

Familiar | Lessons | On | Mineralogy And Geology: | With | Colored Plates. | To which is added, | A Practical Description Of The Use Of | The | Lapidary’s Apparatus, | Explaining the Methods of slitting and polishing Pebbles, &c. | By John Mawe, | Honorary Member of the Mineralogical Society of Jena, &c. &c. | Author of Travels through the Gold and Diamond District of Brazil; Treatise on Diamonds and | Precious Stones, New Descriptive Catalogue, &c. | [rule] | Whose hand unseen the works of nature dooms, | By laws unknown! Who Gives And Who Resumes. | [rule] | Eighth edition. | [rule] | London: | Published By Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown And | Green, Paternoster-Row; | And By J. Mawe, N° 149, Strand. | 1826.

Half title: Familiar Lessons | On | Mineralogy & Geology.

Collation: 12°: [5] vi [2] [1] 2-110 [2 advertisement] p., plates

Plates: hand colored frontispiece plate and 3 plates unnumbered and signed: "J. Mawe, 149, Strand"

Page size: 106 x 179 mm

Binding: 20th century half leather over marbled boards with gilt lettering on spine

Provenance: no marks of provenance

Other editions: 1819, 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823, 1824, 1825, 1828, 1829, 1830

References: Schuh 3291

Collection: private collection