158 - Mineralogy - Carosi, Jan Filip von. On the Formation of Silica and Quartz, Partially Observed in Poland. Translated from the French by the author. With an engraved headpiece and two folded copperplate plates. Leipzig, Müller, 1783. 6 leaves, 80 pp., 1 leaf—with 2 supplementary volumes (see below). Contemporary paperboard binding with gold-stamped spine label (some wear and scuffing; a small tear in the spine covering where a label was removed).

Mineralogy - Carosi, Jan Filip von. On the Formation of Silica and Quartz, Partially Observed in Poland. Translated from the French by the author. With an engraved headpiece and two folded copperplate plates. Leipzig, Müller, 1783. 6 leaves, 80 pp., 1 leaf—with 2 supplementary volumes (see below). Contemporary paperboard binding with gold-stamped spine label (some wear and scuffing; a small tear in the spine covering where a label was removed). First German edition; originally published in French and without plates in Vienna in the same year. — Schuh, Carosi 5. - On the genesis of silica and quartz as well as their derivatives—flint, chalcedony, carnelian, agate, and onyx varieties—and thus also of gemological interest (cf. Sinkankas 1152 on the French edition, “not seen”). - Bound with: 1. Carl Abraham Gerhard. Observations and Conjectures on Granite and Gneiss. Berlin, Himburg, 1779. 55 pp. - Schuh, Gerhard 10. - 2. Laurenz Daniel Suckow. The Causes of Ebb and Flow. With 1 folded copperplate. Jena, Mauke, 1782. 36 pp. - Carosi browning, title page with a wide, underlined margin cut at the bottom; the supplementary volumes are clean. *