Hornstein, Ferdinand Friedrich; Kleines Lehrbuch der Mineralogie. Unter Zugrundelegung der neueren Ansichten in der Chemie für den Gebrauch an höheren Schulen. Vierte vermehrte und verbesserte Auflage. Mit 269 Abbildungen, 55 im Text, die übrigen auf 5 Tafeln vereinigt. Berlin, Verlag von Theodor Fischer, 1886. Octavo, (215 x 130 mm) pp. x, 2, 411, 2, 5 folded plates, text figures.
The work is complete and in a contemporary calf over marbled boards with gilt titles. The binding is tight and clean with smudge mark from old call number on upper inner edge of cover. The text and plates are clean with small embossed stamp on title and owner’s book plate on paste down. In very good condition.
Hornstein was a German mineralogist. His textbook of mineralogy was considered an excellent introduction to the science of mineralogy, and provided the reader with a good foundation to the chemical background of mineralogy. It was written as a text to be used in the high schools of Germany.
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