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ITALIAN MINERALS 



MANY IMPORTANT RARITIES. 



Ten months were spent by our collector in visiting tbe principal mineral collec- 

 tions and several of the most important localities. A large number of historical 

 specimens were thus secured, which cannot be duplicated evea by the most 

 tempting exchanges that can be personally offered. But few good minerals are 

 now coming from the mines of the peninsula, and the high values placed upon 

 examples of the old iinds are steadily rising. The following are all good typical 

 examples of their kind, extra choice crystallizations being especially noted. 



PIEDMONT 



Piedmontite, Yiolan, Diopside, Idocrase, large Hessonite crystals of unusually 

 fine quality. 



BAVENO 

 (At lower prices than foreign collectors pay at the quarries.) 

 Bavenite, a very rare new species, Babingtonite, rare, Orthoclgse in Baveno 

 and Manebach twins, Fluorite. 



CARRERA 

 Limpid Rock Crystal on Marble. 



PORRETTA 



A large assortment of the well known cavernous Quartz Crystals, many showing 

 moving bubbles, Calcite in neat groups of primitive rhombs. 



ELBA 



A large lot of Tourmaline crystals including excellent terminations. Red, 

 green and white. A few vari-colored. Cookeite, Ilvaite, Pollucite. We maintain 

 the old scale of prices on this consignment in spite of a great advance in Italy. 



BELLISIO SOLFARE 



Sulphur in brilliant transparent crystals of different types from the Sicilian 

 and of finer quality. Selenite, perfectly limpid and flawless crystals of unrivalled 

 lustre, offering the most highly prized specimens of this mineral known. Grouped 

 with the Sulphur and isolated. A remarkably beautiful but rare occurrence. 



CAPO Dl BOVE 



Xephelite in groups of sharply defined hexagons. Gismondite crystals of 

 characteristic habits. Breislakiie, Hauynite. 



MONTE SOMMA 



"What's in a name" is answered for the mineralogist in the following list. 

 Of some of them we obtained but one specimen, and at the best got but a sadly 



limited supply. All are old and quite a number are of the original meagre find 

 from which Prof. Scacchi made the descriptions .•:— 



Granuline . Neochrjsolite Melanothallite 



Neociano Nocerite Sodalite, well crystallized 



Euchlorite Aphthitalite, fine crystals Thermonatrite 



Humboldtilite Belonesite with Humite 



Cuspidine Cryphiolite Hydrodolomite 



Meionite, large xls Seme'line Hydrccyanite 

 Erythrocalcite Facellite, fine group of 

 Dolerophanite crystals 



Illustrated Collection Catalog Free. 



The Largest and Most Complete Stock of Scientific and Educational Minerals 

 in the World. Highest Awards at Nine Expositions. 



FORMERLY DR. A. E. FOOTE, 



PHILADELPHIA, PARIS, 



1317 Arch Street. 24 Bue da Champ de Mars. 



