Item #59285 Illustrierte Mineralogie. Gustav Adolf Kenngott.
Illustrierte Mineralogie
Illustrierte Mineralogie
Illustrierte Mineralogie

Illustrierte Mineralogie

Esslingen und Munchen: J. F. Schreiber, [c 1890]. 4to, pp. [8], 74, [4]; text in double column; 23 of 24 composite chromolithograph plates (plate 22 lacking); recent marbled paper boards backed in library buckram; very good.. In 1858, Johann Gottlob Kurr published Das Mineralreich in Bildern, a very popular book that beautifully illustrated minerals on 25 color plates. After Kurr's death, Kenngott appropriated authorship and the result were ... four issues that contain essentially the same text. Variations on the title pages differentiate the various issues. Schuh's bibliography identifies 4 issues. This copy does not clearly conform to any of them but is closest to Issue B, with the line "von Dr. A. Kenngott" on two lines rather than the one called for. (See Schuh, The Mineralogical Record online at mineralogicalrecord.com). "This stunningly illustrated book is the work of distinguished German mineralogist Gustav Adolph Kenngott (1818-1897). Particularly interested in crystallography, Kenngott was the first to describe enstatite, a rare green mineral which can be cut as a gemstone. This volume is a distillation of his work intended for 'the visual instruction of the young in school and with family'” (Smithsonian). Part of the Naturgeschichte des Tier-, Pflanzen- und Mineralreichs, erster Teil series. Item #59285

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