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1. Familiar lessons on mineralogy and geology : explaining the easiest methods of discriminating minerals, and the earthy substances commonly called rocks, which compose the primitive, secondary, floetz or flat, and alluvial formations : to which is added, a description of the lapidaries' apparatus, &c. : with engravings and coloured plate / by J. Mawe, author of the New descriptive catalogue of minerals, &c., &c.

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Creator:: Mawe, John, 1764–1829
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: viii, 78, [2] p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Familiar lessons on mineralogy and geology : with colored plates : to which is added a practical description of the use of the lapidary's apparatus, explaining the methods of slitting and polishing pebbles, &c. / by John Mawe, Honorary Member of the Mineralogical Society of Jena, &c. &c. author of Travels through the gold and diamond district of Brasil, Treatise on diamonds and precious stones, Descriptive catalogue, &c.

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Creator:: Mawe, John, 1764–1829
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 108, iii, [1] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts