Not in Hoover coll.<\/i><\/p>\n
First edition.<\/p>\n
H\u00e9ron de Villefosse was inspector at “Corps royal des Mines de France” and a member of the French Academy of Science. His work gives a panoramic insight to European mines and mining techniques at the beginning of the 19th century. His purpose was to give up-to-date information on mines by giving authentic examples from existing mines. Spines faded, hinge to vol. I restored, some occasional foxing, atlas with clear stain at beginning and end of atlas.<\/p>\n
From the library of ‘Ecole sup\u00e9rieure de commerce et d’industrie’ (gilt spines).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
3 text volumes 4to (245 x 199 mm) and 1 folio atlas (550 x 400 mm) 4 nn.ll., XXIX, 593 pp., 1 nn.l. and 25 tables and maps for volume I; 2 nn.ll., XVI, 553 pp. for volume II; 2 nn.ll., XX and 538 pp. for volume III; title page and 65 plates for the atlas. Text volumes in slightly later blue half-calf, spines gilt, atlas bound in style (spines faded<\/i>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":71970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[540],"product_tag":[1450,554],"class_list":{"0":"post-71975","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-natural-history","7":"product_tag-first-edition","8":"product_tag-mineralogy","9":"pa_auteur-heron-de-villefosse-antoine-marie-2","10":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":"Antoine Marie HERON DE VILLEFOSSE","chapeau":"","adresse_bibliographique":"Paris, Treuttel & W\u00fcrtz, 1819","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n