Tabellen zur Bestimmung der Mineralien nach ausseren Kennzeichen.

Leipzig:: Arthur Felix, 1866., 1866. 8vo. viii, 113, [1] pp. Tables, index. Modern quarter brown calf, marbled boards, gilt-spine, marbled end-leaves. Ex library rubber stamps of the Mineralogisches Institut, Berlin. Very good. FIRST EDITION. "Rare. This is the first edition of a work that was popular for many years. The text presents a series of tables that are used to determine the name of an unknown mineral by placing a sample through a series of simple tests based upon the external characteristics. Used with in the German education system, it was deemed important enough to be translated into English, which spawned its own sequence of books." – Curtis (truncated) Schuh. German mineralogist Albin Weisbach (1833-1901), was the son of Julius Ludwig Weisbach (1806-1871), a noted mathematician and engineer, known to teach at the Royal School of Mines in Freiberg. The younger Weisbach followed his father in this discipline and became professor in 1857 and worked for many years as a professor at the Freiberg Mining Academy, later becoming professor of physics. In 1866 he was appointed Professor of Mineralogy. The present work is an interesting and valuable classification of minerals, remained in print until the 7th ed., 1906. The second edition was also issued in 1866; later it was translated into English in 1875. References: BMC (Nat. Hist.), V, p. 2286; Gascoigne, Catalogue of Scientific Periodicals, 1985: no. 8866; Katalog Bergakademie Freiberg, 1879: p. 705 [VI. 989.]; NUC; USGS Library Catalog. ADB: 41, 522; Poggendorff: 3, 1427 & 4, 1615; Sarjeant, Geologists, 1980: 3, 2396; World Who's Who in Science: 1774. (Inventory #: S6565)