Rock-forming Minerals

Condition

8vo, orig. wrappers, detached, worn, lacking spine. Presented by the author to Prof. N. Story-Maskelyne. Bookplate of the Herbert Lister Bowman Library, Laboratory of Mineralogy, University of Oxford. Paper label with manuscript note to endpaper, 'Presented to Prof. Miers by Prof. N.H.M. Story-Maskelyne'.

Prof. Sir Henry A. Miers (1858-1942) was Waynflete Professor of Mineralogy, Oxford University, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester and Professor of Crystallography. Prof. N. Story-Maskelyne (1823-1911) (full name Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne) was Professor of Mineralogy, 1856-95, University of Oxford, and Keeper of Minerals at the British Museum, 1857-1880.