Lot Essay
The law of rational indices of the face of crystals still bears the name of Haüy who first propounded the mathematical theory of crystal structure in this work.
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HAUY, René-Just (1743-1822). Essai d'une Théorie sur la Structure des Crystaux, appliquée a plusieurs genres de substances crystallisées, Paris: chez Gogué & Née de la Rochelle, 1784, 8°, FIRST EDITION, 8 folding engraved plates (light spotting), contemporary speckled calf (rubbed, upper joints cracking, library stamp on upper cover and at foot of spine). [Dibner 92; Horblit 47; Norman 1021] Provenance: JCL