Orig ANCIENT MINERALOGY by NF Moore 1st 1834 Mineral Substances of the Ancients

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Offered here for purchase is an acceptable original first edition of
ANCIENT MINERALOGY by N.F. Moore. NY: G & C Carvill & Co, 1834. 7 1/4" X 4 1/2", pp 192; original pebbled cloth. Lacks spine, title page chipped with the loss of last 3 letters of LOGY. Text block is solid and a copy worthy of restoration. Not ex-library. "An inquiry respecting mineral substances mentioned by the Ancients: with
occasional
remarks on the uses to which they were applied". This rare book contains discussions of mineral substances mentioned by a great many of the ancient writers, especially Dioscorides, Pliny and Theophrastus.
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