The Mineralogical Record articles from July 1995

The Mineralogical Record archives from July 1995

Collecting mineral books: an introduction.(Mineral Books)
July 1, 1995... Books about minerals and mineralogy have been, with a few exceptions, neglected as a focus for private collectors until the past decade or two. Indeed, the finest such library known to the writer (that of Herbert P. Obodda) has been in the...

Medieval mineralogy. (book collecting)(Mineral Books)
July 1, 1995... The following article(*) was originally published as part of Frank Dawson Adams' Birth and Development of the Geological Sciences, which is perhaps the most quoted reference on early mineralogical literature. The only alteration is the...

Gem minerals in early Arabic literature.(Mineral Books)
July 1, 1995... INTRODUCTION Gem formation, composition, properties, sources, occurrences, enhancement techniques, color grading and commercial values - all were topics of interest to the early Arabs. By "early" is meant the 9th to the 14th centuries A.D.,...

A brief history of systematic mineralogies.(Mineral Books)
July 1, 1995... INTRODUCTION In 1804, one of Scotland's most renowned mineralogists, Robert Jameson, published the first volume of the first edition of his System of Mineralogy. In the Preface to that volume he reviews the history of such efforts, going all...

Fabien Gautier d'Agoty and his 'Histoire Naturelle Regne Mineral' (1781). (includes related article)(Mineral Books)
July 1, 1995... Jean Fabien Gautier d'Agoty (1747-1781) was the fifth son of Jacques Fabien Gautier (1716-1785), a French pioneer in the development of color printing. Jacques had been an assistant and successor to the painter and engraver Jacques Christophe Le...

Philip Rashleigh and his 'Specimens of British Minerals' (1797 and 1802).(Mineral Books)
July 1, 1995... INTRODUCTION Philip Rashleigh is famous among mineral collectors for the superb Cornish mineral collection he assembled, and among book collectors for the beautifully illustrated two-volume description of his best specimens which he published...

James Sowerby, his publications and collections. (mineral illustrator)(Mineral Books)
July 1, 1995... INTRODUCTION For the past 40 years I have been fascinated by the superb and beautiful mineral colorplate works of James Sowerby and his descendants. As I became a serious book-collector, and then an amateur writer on the history of minerals...

Nikolay Ivanovitch Korsharov and his 'Mineralogue Russlands' (1853-1891).(Mineral Books)
July 1, 1995... Nickolay Ivanovitch Koksharov was born on the 23rd of November, 1818, not far from the city of Ustkamenogorsk in the Semipalatinsk District, Russia. He was the son of Ivan Konstantinovitch Koksharov, and in the Russian tradition took his father's...

Regional mineralogies of the world. (includes bibliography)(Mineral Books)
July 1, 1995... Topographic or regional mineralogies consist of the description of all the known minerals occurring on or near the surface of a specific geologic, physiographic or most commonly national or political area of the earth. Also included with many of...

The saga of Mineral Digest. (periodical on gems and minerals)(Mineral Books)
July 1, 1995... Mineral Digest was born in 1970, out of a half-serious challenge to the canny Argentinean gem and mineral dealer Julio Tanjeloff (1916-1980), whose firm, Astro Minerals, Ltd., had just opened in a gallery on the East Side in New York City. The...

An introduction to bookplates: with examples from the earth science library of Herbert P. Obodda.(Mineral Books)
July 1, 1995... Bookplates, the bibliographical equivalent of mineral specimen labels, have a long and distinguished history. Book collectors today are free not only to design and use their own personalized bookplates, but also to consider collecting examples...

Gemology, an Annotated Bibliography.
July 1, 1995... Considering that gemstones have always held a particular fascination for man, and further, that he has been writing about them from at least the time of Pliny in the first century, and earlier in the purported works of Aristotle, it must come as...

The Mineralogical Record library.(Mineral Books)
July 1, 1995... In keeping with the topic of this special issue on mineral books and book collecting, a few words about the Mineralogical Record Library may be of interest to readers, especially in view of its vital contribution to most of the articles presented...