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(SCIENCE.) Cesi, Bernardo, S.J. Mineralogia; sive, Naturalis philosophiae thesauri. [16], 626, [69] pages, including half-title. Folio, 367x234 mm, 17th-century vellum boards with leather lettering piece; contents browned, stain in upper margin of opening leaves. Lyon: Jacques & Pierre Prost, 1636
first edition; issue with dedication to Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena. "The first large-scale work to use the term mineralogy and apparently the first to employ the word in the modern sense . . . This book is of value as a storehouse of all that was known on the subject"—Neville I, 255. Schuh, Cesi 1; Sinkankas 1221.
