A | Systematic Arrangement | Of | Minerals, | Founded On The | Joint Consideration | Of Their | Chemical, Physical, And External | Characters; | Reduced To The Form Of Tables, | And Exhibiting | The Analysis Of Such Species As Have Hitherto Been Made | The Subject Of Experiment. | By William Babington, M.D. | Lecturer In Chemistry At Guy's Hospital. | [ornate rule] | London: | Printed For The Author By T. Bensley. | Sold By G.G. and J. Robinson's, Paternoster-Row; And | T. Cox, St. Thomas's-Street, Borough. | [rule] | 1796. 2°: [a]2 B-G2 H1; 15l.; [i]-iv, [1]-26 p. Page size: 265 x 205 mm. this is a second edition Contents: [i-ii], Title page, verso blank.; [iii]-iv, "Advertisement."; [1]-25, Text, consisting of a series of tables.; 26, "Appendix." and "Errata." Rare. Babington purchased the the Earl of Bute's mineral collection, which was called one of "the finest, perhaps, which at that time existed in England." The study of these minerals, and the various methods in which they could be classified lead the author to prepare his own collection catalog. It is the arrangement Babington adopted for this catalog that the tables of A Systemtatic Arrangement of Minerals are based.