The History of Mineral Collecting 1530-1799. With Notes on Twelve Hundred Early Mineral Collectors
by (MINERALOGY)
By Wendell E. Wilson. Plates in color & many facsimiles in the text. 264 pp. Large 4to, orig. cloth over boards. Tucson: The Mineralogical Record, 1994. First edition, hard-bound issue, of this extremely important and useful history of mineral collecting. This is the best book on the subject. Well indexed. Out-of-print. (Inventory #: 321)