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Portrait of John Ruskin as a young man. From the water-colour by G. Richmond, R.A. circa 1843

Instructions for the use of the blow-pipe, and chemical tests, with additions and observations derived from the recent publication of Professor Berzelius / By J. Mawe.

Portrait of John Ruskin from photograph taken in 1882

John Ruskin after painting by Millais

Portrait of John Ruskin

A goddess sits among a crowd of mythological figures with musical instruments and weapons; representing mineralogy. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1817.

Painting personified with its ancillary arts and sciences: optics, chemistry and mineralogy. Engraving by P.C. Baquoy, 1809, after J.M. Moreau.

Dictionnaire de chimie et de minéralogie ... / par L.-F. Jéhan.

Élemens de chimie / par E. Mitscherlich, traduits de l'allemand sur la dernière édition, par B. Valérius.

Familiar lessons on mineralogy and geology ... To which is added a practical description of the use of the lapidary's apparatus. Explaining the methods of slitting and polishing pebbles / [John Mawe].

Geologists, Mineralogists and Palaeontologists, chiefly 19th century English and French

Johannis Jonstoni ... Notitia regni mineralis, seu subterraneorum catalogus, cum præcipuis differentiis / [Joannes Jonstonus].

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Mineralogy

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Dictionnaire de chimie et de minéralogie ... / par L.-F. Jéhan.

Élemens de chimie / par E. Mitscherlich, traduits de l'allemand sur la dernière édition, par B. Valérius.

Familiar lessons on mineralogy and geology ... To which is added a practical description of the use of the lapidary's apparatus. Explaining the methods of slitting and polishing pebbles / [John Mawe].

Geologists, Mineralogists and Palaeontologists, chiefly 19th century English and French

Johannis Jonstoni ... Notitia regni mineralis, seu subterraneorum catalogus, cum præcipuis differentiis / [Joannes Jonstonus].

Mineralogy

Images from the collections

Images referencing Mineralogy

Works from the collections

Dictionnaire de chimie et de minéralogie ... / par L.-F. Jéhan.

Élemens de chimie / par E. Mitscherlich, traduits de l'allemand sur la dernière édition, par B. Valérius.

Familiar lessons on mineralogy and geology ... To which is added a practical description of the use of the lapidary's apparatus. Explaining the methods of slitting and polishing pebbles / [John Mawe].

Geologists, Mineralogists and Palaeontologists, chiefly 19th century English and French

Johannis Jonstoni ... Notitia regni mineralis, seu subterraneorum catalogus, cum præcipuis differentiis / [Joannes Jonstonus].

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