Complete Mineral Catalog ... Twelfth Edition, Entirely revised and enlarged with three hundred figures and plates
Philadelphia: Foote Mineral Company 1909. 320 pages. May 1910 price changes and supplementary list of minerals sold by weight tipped in at page 310. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth gilt. Corners bumped, edges worn but sound and clean. Penciled (name?) on front flyleaf. Very Good. Cloth. [27103]
This catalog was available in three formats - semi-flexible cloth, cloth boards [as here], and flexible leather with 160 note-paper interleaves. The first section on glossy high clay paper shows illustrations of some of the samples the company sells, labels, oak mineral chests, etc. Each item in the catalog (over 2500 samples in the main catalog) are priced with descriptions. For many crystal forms are shown to aid in the description. An unusual catalog.
Price: $95.00