‎"DANA, JAMES D. - REFORMING MINERALOGY.‎
‎A new System of Crystallographic Symbols.‎

‎New Haven, Hezekiah Howe & Co., 1835. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and with gilt lettering. In ""The American Journal of Science and Arts. Conducted by benjamin Silliman"", Vol. 38 - July, 1835. VII,404 pp. (Entire volume offered). Dana's paper: pp. 250-262 and 1 engraved plate. A few marginal brownspots. Internally clean.‎

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‎First appearence of Dana' first paper on the classification of minerals which 2 years later became his great work ""A System of Mineralogy"" containing his famous and widely accepted classification system.Poggendorff I, 516.‎