Daubenton

1792 · rif. S6747 — Paris:: De l'Imprimerie de Du Pont Imprimeur de l'Academie Royale des Sciences 1792. 1792. 8vo. 42 ff. Printed on one side only. Full modern blind-stamped brown calf gilt spine. Ex library rubber stamp on verso of title. Fine. FOURTH EDITION. This work divides minerals into four orders and under these are classes based on physical and chemical properties. "The first edition of his Tableau methodique des mineraux appeared in 1784. While they display no great originality Daubenton's teaching and writings on mineralogy contributed significantly to the spreading of current knowledge of the subject. It was moreover under Daubenton's patronage that Hauy began his career." - DSB. Louis Daubenton was professor of Natural History at the College de France and professor of mineralogy at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. BM Nat. Hist. I p. 424; Cole Chemical literature 337 5th ed. An IV de la Republique; DSB XV p. 113; Duveen Bibliotheca alchemica et chemica p. 158 1784; Poggendorf I col. 515 notes an 8th ed. in 1800. De l'Imprimerie de Du Pont, Imprimeur de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, 1792). unknown books