Scopoli, Giovanni Antonio (1776)
[Engraved Latin title page:] Contained within a ornate, engraved box] Joan. Ant. Scopoli | S.C.R. et Apost. Majest. | in monetariis et montanisti= | cis Consiliarii, Mineralogiæ | Professoris publici etc. etc. | CRYSTALLOGRAPHIA | Hungarica. | Pars I. | exhibens | Crystallos indolis terræ | cum Figuris rariorum. [Inscribed on the border] Pragæ apud Wolffgangum Gerle 1776.
[Only the first part of this work which was to encompass all the minerals of Hungary was published.]
Half title: Jo. Ant. Scopoli | Crystallographia | Hungarica | Pars i.
Collation: 4°: n1 n6 A-R4 S2; [14], [1] 2-139, [1] p., 19 folding engraved plates of mineral specimens, engraved title page
Plates: 19 engraved plates showing quartz crystals and other minerals of Banská Štiavnica (Schemnitz), numbered "Tab. I-XIX"; Plate 1 signed "Nissl fecit"
Page size: 169 x 222 mm
Binding: recent half calf over marbled boards, gilt lettering and ornaments on spine
Provenance: no marks of provenance
Other editions: none
References: Hoover Collection 738, Schuh 4388
Collection: Simone & Peter Huber
