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Rare Antique ATLAS to Description d’une Collection de Minéraux, M. Henri Heuland (1837) 1st Ed. Leather Book - Exceptionally Rare Antique First Edition of the ATLAS (v.4) to Description d’une Collection de Minéraux of M. Henri Heuland by Armond Levy, (1837-8). Full Title: Description d’une Collection de Minéraux, formée par M. Henri Heuland, et appartenant a M. Ch. Hampden Turner, de Rooksnest, dans le Comte de Surrey en Angleterre. Published in London by Richter and Haas, 1837. Includes all 83 rare plates. The compilation stands as one of the most elaborate and technically detailed catalogs of any mineral collection. During its preparation Levy described a number of new species based on specimens in the collection, including forsterite, babingtonite, brochantite, roselite brookite, herschelite, phillipsite and beudantite. Bound in full calf leather with gold gilt border decorations on front and back covers and gold gilt decoration and lettering to spine. Binding attached and still tight. Contains all original plates, some with scattered toning.  Approx. Size: John Henry Heuland (1778-1856) was a prominent and successful London mineral dealer and nephew of mineral dealer Adolarius Jacob Forster (1739-1806). Heuland inherited a fine collection from Forster in 1806, and continued to add to it until 1820, when he sold it to Charles Hampden Turner of Rook’s Nest, Godstone, Surrey, England. Heuland and Turner agreed that an elaborate catalog of the collection should be published, classified according to the system of Haüy and illustrated by an atlas of crystal drawings.