EditorialGeorgius Agricola (1494-1555). German scientist. Known as "the father of mineralogy". Engraving belonging to his work De Re Metallica. Basel 1564. Colored.
EditorialPrecious stones and crystals including iron quartz, rose quartz, smoky quartz, milky quartz, amethyst quartz, heliotrope, jasper, rock crystal, chalcedony and moss agate. Chromolithograph from Dr. Aldolph Kenngott's "Mineralogy" section in Gotthilf Hei...
EditorialMineral and crystal varieties including fluorite, celestine and fibrous rock salt. Chromolithograph from Dr. Aldolph Kenngott's "Mineralogy" section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert's "Naturgeschichte," Schreiber, Munich, 1886.
EditorialTitle page with vignette of miner with lantern in a cave surrounded by gems, crystals, fossils and precious stones. Chromolithograph from Dr. Adolph Kenngott's "Mineralogy" section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert's "Naturgeschichte," Schreiber, Munic...
EditorialUnique Specimens of Mineralogy, Edward Francis Burney, 17601848, British, undated, Brown wash, and pen and gray ink on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 12 1/2 ? 8 1/8 inches (31.8 ? 20.6 cm).
EditorialMoss rose, Rosa muscosa. Handcoloured engraving by James Andrews for John Stevens Henslow's "Bouquet des Souvenirs," London, 1840. Henslow (1796~1861) was educated at Cambridge University, and returned to teach there, becoming Chair of Mineralogy in 18...
EditorialGeorgius Agricola (1494-1555). German scientist. Known as "the father of mineralogy". Engraving belonging to his work De Re Metallica. Basel 1564. Colored.
EditorialGeorgius Agricola (1494-1555). German scientist. Known as "the father of mineralogy". Engraving belonging to his work De Re Metallica. Basel 1564. Colored.
EditorialMinerals and cystals of sulphur, mellite, graphite, amber with insects, amber in Carpathian stone, anthracite, English coal, slate coal, needle coal, earthier brown coal and lignite. Chromolithograph from Dr. Aldolph Kenngott's "Mineralogy" section in ...
EditorialMetals including stalactitic lepidocrocite, hematite, limonites, chalybite, bog ore, pharmacosiderite, melanterite, pyrolusite, psilomelane and rhodonite. Chromolithograph from Dr. Aldolph Kenngott's "Mineralogy" section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schube...
EditorialPrecious stones including diamond, corundum, ruby, sapphire, chrysoberyl, alexandrite, zircon, hyacinth, emerald and beryl. Chromolithograph from Dr. Adolph Kenngott's "Mineralogy" section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert's "Naturgeschichte," Schreibe...
EditorialMetals including bismuth, bismuth crystals in smelter product, bismuth in smaltite, uraninite, blue-black anatase, titanite and scheelite crystals. Chromolithograph from Dr. Aldolph Kenngott's "Mineralogy" section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert's "N...
EditorialMineral and crystal varieties including fluorite, celestine and fibrous rock salt. Chromolithograph from Dr. Aldolph Kenngott's "Mineralogy" section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert's "Naturgeschichte," Schreiber, Munich, 1886.
EditorialMinerals and crystals including analcime, natrolite, stilbite, apophyllite, calcite, pisolite, aragonite and a stalactite. Chromolithograph from Dr. Aldolph Kenngott's "Mineralogy" section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert's "Naturgeschichte," Schreibe...
EditorialVarious minerals including orthoclase, amazonite, porphyry granite, adularia, porphyry, melaphyre, labradorite, penninite, muscovite, biotite, chlorite and granite. Chromolithograph from Dr. Aldolph Kenngott's "Mineralogy" section in Gotthilf Heinrich ...
EditorialPrecious metals including gold in ruddy quartz, gold crystal, gold tablet in quartz, lumps of gold, sylvanite, platinum and osmiridium. Chromolithograph from Dr. Aldolph Kenngott's "Mineralogy" section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert's "Naturgeschich...
EditorialTitle page with vignette of miner with lantern in a cave surrounded by gems, crystals, fossils and precious stones. Chromolithograph from Dr. Adolph Kenngott's "Mineralogy" section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert's "Naturgeschichte," Schreiber, Munic...
EditorialPrecious metals including mercury on cinnabarite, cinnabarite, copper, chalcocite, indigo copper on chalcopyrite, and bornite. Chromolithograph from Dr. Aldolph Kenngott's "Mineralogy" section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert's "Naturgeschichte," Schr...
EditorialMinerals including cuprite crystals, azurite, azurite on sandstone, malachite crystal, lunnite, libethinite, euchroite, dioptase and chalkophanite. Chromolithograph from Dr. Aldolph Kenngott's "Mineralogy" section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert's "N...
EditorialMetals including galena crystals on fluorite, cerussite crystals, mimetesite, wulfenite, crocoite, tin ore, zinc and zincite. Chromolithograph from Dr. Aldolph Kenngott's "Mineralogy" section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert's "Naturgeschichte," Schre...
EditorialMinerals and crystals including aragonite, dolomite, anhydrite, apatite and fluorite. Chromolithograph from Dr. Aldolph Kenngott's "Mineralogy" section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert's "Naturgeschichte," Schreiber, Munich, 1886.
EditorialMetals including sulfur-nickel, nickeline, chloanthite crystal, annabergite on chloanthite, sulfur-cobalt, smaltite, erythrite and meteor rocks. Chromolithograph from Dr. Aldolph Kenngott's "Mineralogy" section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert's "Natu...
EditorialMoss rose, Rosa muscosa. Handcoloured engraving by James Andrews for John Stevens Henslow's "Bouquet des Souvenirs," London, 1840. Henslow (1796~1861) was educated at Cambridge University, and returned to teach there, becoming Chair of Mineralogy in 18...
EditorialGeorgius Agricola (1494-1555). German scientist. Known as "the father of mineralogy". Engraving belonging to his work De Re Metallica. Basel 1564. Colored.