Methode analytique des fossiles, fonde´e sur leurs caracte`res exterieurs

1797. STRUVE, Henri. Methode analytique des fossiles, fondee sur leurs caracteres exterieurs. xii, 174 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of hand-coloured plates. 4to, 120 x 191 mm, contemporary calf. Paris: Chez Henry Tardieu,1797. An interesting eighteenth-century study on minerals which includes an attempt to classify mineral colours. Spine rubbed, but overall an attractive copy.