Author: Hilary Bauerman

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Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9781332330812

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Excerpt from d104-Book of Descriptive Mineralogy In the preparation of the present volume, owing to the large and constantly increasing stock of mineralogical literature, the chief difficulty has been the selection and compression of the material so as to give a fair general view of the subject within the space available. For this purpose and in order to carry out the general ideas of the series, only the more important species, whether from a natural history or an economic point of view, are described in much detail, the general relations of the individual species in each group being indicated in a preliminary statement at the commencement of each chapter. It was originally$ intended to illustrate the descriptions mainly by the figures in the 'Treatise on Systematic Mineralogy;' but during the progress of the work, the writer was fortunate enough to acquire the wood blocks used in the illustration of 'Brooke and Miller, ' which have been generally regarded as the best examples of their class ever executed, and he has used a selection of these in preference to perspective projections. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Text-Book of Descriptive Mineralogy (Classic Reprint) written by Hilary Bauerman and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from d104-Book of Descriptive Mineralogy In the preparation of the present volume, owing to the large and constantly increasing stock of mineralogical literature, the chief difficulty has been the selection and compression of the material so as to give a fair general view of the subject within the space available. For this purpose and in order to carry out the general ideas of the series, only the more important species, whether from a natural history or an economic point of view, are described in much detail, the general relations of the individual species in each group being indicated in a preliminary statement at the commencement of each chapter. It was originally$ intended to illustrate the descriptions mainly by the figures in the 'Treatise on Systematic Mineralogy;' but during the progress of the work, the writer was fortunate enough to acquire the wood blocks used in the illustration of 'Brooke and Miller, ' which have been generally regarded as the best examples of their class ever executed, and he has used a selection of these in preference to perspective projections. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.