Description Méthodique d'une Collection de Minéraux, du Cabinet de M.D.R.D.L. Ouvrage où l'on donne de...
Engraved allegorical frontis. by Augustin Saint-Aubin. xxxii, 299, [5] pp. 8vo, orig. wrappers, uncut. Paris: Didot & Knapen, 1773.
First edition, and a lovely copy in original state, of an uncommon book; this is one of Romé’s first publications. It is a description “of the metallic ores of his own mineral cabinet, in which he discussed the origin, metamorphosis, and paragenesis of each.”–D.S.B., XI, p. 521. Earlier, he had catalogued the mineralogical curiosities in the cabinet of Pedro Francisco Davila and for several years found steady employment by preparing at least fourteen other mineralogical catalogues. In all the descriptions in... More