Author: Brewster, David.
Title: ACCOUNT OF A REMARKABLE STRUCTURE IN APOPHYLLITE, With Observations on the Optical Peculiarities of that Mineral. (Read 21st April 1817, 5th March and 17th December 1821).
Description: ..., 1821. Slim 4to. ([317]-336)pp. 2 plates (plate nos. 20 & 21), including 1 printed in red ink and hand-coloured. Unopened in parts, disbound, loosely inserted in modern paper wrapps. with paper title label and booksellers ink stamp to upper wrapp. ¶ From the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Volume IX. Sir David Brewster (1781-1868) was a physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor (of the Kaleidoscape) and writer.

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