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It remained for 1800 years a most valuable and authoritative work on minerals

THEOPHRASTUS. Traité des Pierres de Théophraste traduit du Grec; avec des notes physiques & critiques, traduites de l'Anglois de M. Hill. Auquel on a ajouté deux lettres du même auteur, l'une au Docteur Parsons, sur les couleurs du Saphir & de la Turquoise; & l'autre à M. Folkes, président de la Societé Royale de Londres, sur les effets des différens menstrues sur le cuivre.

Paris, J.T. Herissant, 1754. Small 8vo (157 x 97mm). pp. xxiv, 287. Contemporary half calf, ornamented spine with red gilt lettered label (spine sl...

EUR 1,600

The number published of the 'Illustrations of British Fungi' must have been very small as there were only 70 subscribers in Britain

COOKE, M.C. Illustrations of British Fungi (Hymenomycetes), to serve as an atlas to the "Handbook of British Fungi". London, Williams and Norgate, 1881-1891. 8 volumes.

Royal-8vo (228 x 145mm). With 1198 chromolithographed plates. Uniformly bound in green half calf, spines with gilt lettering.

EUR 4,500