Ambroise Tardieu - Entretiens sur la minéralogie d'aprés la méthode du celebre Haüy - 1825-1825

2 volumes, octavo, with 8 pages of preliminaries + 528 pages, adorned with 12 folding plates, frontispiece portrait of Haüy. Marbled edges. Romantic-era binding, half olive calf (blond), spine very ornate, boards with a cold-foil border. Gilt title. On the title page it mentions 23 plates? There is no trace of plates having been removed. Some colleagues only have copies with 12 plates.