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Lapparent, A. de. Cours de Mineralogie. Paris: F. Savy, 1884. First edition. Lg. 8vo, contemp. 1/4 brown morocco & bds., gilt-lettered spine, raised bands; some edge wear, occasionally scuffed. Color frontis., figures in text. Very occasional, minor foxing, internally generally clean.
Lapparent was President of the Geological Soc. of France and of the French Mineralogical Soc. This book was the first to offer new and powerful techniques of crystallography, and in which the mathematics of symmetry were first applied to the theory of solids.