COLLECTION OF NINE EARLY 20TH CENTURY CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS FROM LEONARD JAMES SPENCERS' THE WORLDS' MINERALS,Published London, 1911. W & R Chambers, Ltd. Nine matted, of the period prints from John Spencers' The Worlds Minerals. Consisting of Plate #3: Metallic elements: Platinum, Gold & Copper (#62495.1), Plate #6, Sulphides & Arsenides: Niccolite, Cinnabar and Mispickel (#62497.1); Plate #8, Sulphur Salts: Copper pyrites, Smaltite, Tetrahedite, Pyrargyrite and Proustite. (#62496.1), Plate #10, Haloids: Oxides: Rock Salt, Atacamite and Opal (#62498.1), Plate #12, Oxides: Agate, Jasper and Hornstone (#62499.1), Plate #19, Carbonates: Chessylite and Malachite (#62494.1), Plate #20: Sulphates: Barytes, Anglesite and Celestite (#62492.1), Plate #24, Phosphates: Wavellite, Lazulite, Cuprouranite, Vivianite and Turquoise (#62493.1),Plate #28: Silicates: Sodalite, Lapis-lazuli, Leucite and Beryl (#62491.1). All sheets measuring 8" high x 5 1/2" wide.
'Leonard James Spencer (1870-1959) was a British geologist. He was an Honorary member of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, and also a recipient of its Bolitho Medal. He was president of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland from 1936 to 1939. In mineralogy Spencer was an researcher who described several new minerals, including miersite, tarbuttite, and parahopeite. He also did important work as a curator, editor and bibliographer.' Estimate $100-200
Provenance: The Old Print Gallery, Washington, DC.
Some toning. Good color and impression. One having traces of applied gilt. Several having rough left edge of sheet associated with being bound.
