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Elementos de Orictognosia ¢ del Conocimiento de los Fosiles... seg£n los Principios de A. G. Werner... Primera Parte, que comprehende las Tierras, Piedras, y Sales. 4to, contemporary calf, worn, covers dampstained (rear especially), affects endpapers and margins, gutters, and lower margin of second half of contents most heavily; text unmarred. Mexico: Mariano Joseph de Z£¤iga y Ontiveros, 1795 first edition of the first work on mineralogy written by a resident of the New World. The second part appeared in 1805. Palau 268177.