Rare Mineralogy Book: Senft, Karl Friedrich Ferdinand; Analytische Tabellen zur Bestimmung der Classen, Ordnungen, Gruppen, Sippen und Arten der Mineralien und Gebirgsarten. 1874

Senft, Karl Friedrich Ferdinand; Analytische Tabellen zur Bestimmung der Classen, Ordnungen, Gruppen, Sippen und Arten der Mineralien und Gebirgsarten. Gearbeitet von Professor Dr. Senft. Hannover,  Hahn'sche Hofbuchhandlung. 1874. Octavo (220 x 145 mm), pp. 6, 102.

The work is complete and in a modern archival folder. The text is browned and first pages are brittle with short repairs using archival tissue at outer margin of first three pages. Original owners loose pages of notes in archival sleeve at front. Binding fine, text in good condition.

Senft; (1810-1893) was a German mineralogist. He studied at the Universities of Jena and Göttingen. In 1835, he became professor of natural history at the Real-Gymnasium and the Forstschule in Eisenach. He was a member of the Leopoldin Academy and the Erfurt Academy. Senft wrote texts on mineralogy and crystallography. His Analytische Tabellen is probably his rarest work since the book was published on a poor quality paper and served as a laboratory manual. It consists of a series of tables giving information about the properties of minerals and rocks.