EARTH AND ITS TREASURES: A DESCRIPTION OF THE METALLIC AND MINERAL WEALTH OF NATURE. Edited, and with Additions by W. H. Davenport Adams.

MANGIN, ARTHUR. ADAMS, W. H. DAVENPORT, edited by.

Verlag: T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row., London, 1875

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8vo. 5.25 x 7 inches. 405 + [1] pp. + [10] pp. publisher's advertisements. Bound in original brown cloth, gilt, decorated by gilt block. Bevelled edges. Extremities worn and foxing throughout but otherwise a good copy. Prize certificate of Allan Park School, 1876. Illustrated throughout by wood engravings including whole page and frontispiece. Decorated by initials. A systematic survey of the mineral and metallic wealth of the Earth, by Arthur Mangin (1824-87), originally published in France as Pierres et Métaux and edited and expanded for the English edition by William Henry Davenport Adams (1828-91). Awarded as a school prize in 1876. NATURAL HISTORY/SCIENCE GEOLOGY GEOLOGY 19TH CENTURY PRESENTATION NATURAL HISTORY/SCIENCE. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 24292

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Titel: EARTH AND ITS TREASURES: A DESCRIPTION OF ...

Verlag: T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row., London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1875