PETRINI, Giovanni Vincenzo (1725-1814) - Gabinetto mineralogico del Collegio Nazareno. Rome: Lazzarini, 1791-1792.   First edition of this extensive catalogue of the Collegeo Nazareno mineralogical museum in Rome, founded by the author father Giovan Vincenzo Petrini (1725-1784) and edited by Scipione Breislak, one of the founders of volcanology in Italy. The preliminary pages of the first volume provide some history of the collection and a synopsis of Lavoisier's new chemistry. The catalogue then begins classifying the samples in a standard structure of salts, earths, bitumen, flammable bodies and metals. The part about precious stones contains comments on their place of origin and the carat weights of the most important known diamonds.   2 volumes, 8vo (210 x 135mm). Titles with woodcut device, woodcut initials and devices (lacking chi1 with errata in the first volume, first title with tear not touching text and some browning and staining, light browning and foxing). Contemporary quarter calf, gilt title on spines, speckled edges (rubbing and chipping especially to extremities and spines). (2)

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