Pfaff, Friedrich (1860)

Grundriss | der | Mineralogie |von | Dr. Friedrich Pfaff, | a.o. Professor an der Universität Erlangen. | [ornate rule] | Nördlingen. | Druck und Verlag der C.H. Beck'schen Buchhandlung. | 1860.

Collation: 8°: [3] iv-xii [1] 2-293 [1] p., 9 plates

Plates: 9 unsigned folding lithographic plates numbered: "Taf. 1 - 9 "

Page size: 140 x 213 mm

Binding: contemporary boards (worn) with paper label bearing the name of the author, half of the spine is missing

Provenance: The author's own copy with his name autographed on the front flyleaf. From page 94 onward (which is the part on the classification and description of minerals), the present copy is interleaved with blank leaves. The author apparently used this as a working copy and introduced several autographed notes on the extra leaves

Other editions: none

References: Schuh 3684

Collection: private collection