Kluge on precious stones 1860

ON PRECIOUS STONES. (2). KLUGE, KARL EMIL. Handbuch der Edelsteinkunde für Mineralogen, Steinschneider und Juweliere. Leipzig (F. A. Brockhaus) 1860.

Large 8:o. (5), VI-XVIII, (1)-561, (1 blank) pp. 15 partly folding lithograph plates (all, last 6 with larger brownspots in inner part).
Contemporary brown half leather, somewhat worn, faded gilt spine in five compartments. Bookplate of Carl-Ingemar Sahlin. And some more. 2 volumes.

Some more consists of: Blum: Taschenbuch der Edelsteinkunde... (3rd ed., Leipzig 1887).

From the library of Carl Sahlin.
Carl Sahlin (1861-1943), industrialist, writer on the science of mining and metallurgy.
He started his collecting as early as 1897 as a student of mining. Later he became head of the Ironworks part of the Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags AB (1893-1900), and then manager at Laxå Bruk. President of the Swedish Iron and Steel Works´ Association 1904-1928, delegate of the Swedish Ironmasters´ Association. He wrote extensively about mining and foundry history (also numismatics) and founded Bergslagets library and museum. He was also one of the founders of the Technical museum in Stockholm, to which museum he also donated his vast collections on mining and related history, including part of his library in 1933.

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