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DANA, JAMES DWIGHT. A System of Mineralogy:including an Extended Treatise on Crystallography . . . and a Mineralogical Bibliography. 4 engraved crystallographic plates, including 2 folding. xiv, 452; 119, [1] pages, plus errata slip. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo, 224x138 mm, modern 1/2 leather, top of spine chipped; some foxing, last 2 plates dampstained in gutter. New Haven, 1837
first edition of Dana's first and most famous book, written when he was 24, "one of the most significant contributions to American mineralogy . . . a very complete and readable compendium of all mineralogical data available to that time" (Schuh). DSB III, 354; Hoover 247; Schuh, Dana 1.
