📚 Mineralogy

The species of the inorganic world: crystals, properties, identification, and the cabinet that became a science.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject mineralogy in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Systema naturae	Carl Linnaeus	1748	55
	Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Classe	Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse	1856	37
	Manual of mineralogy	James D. Dana	1848	30
	A text-book of mineralogy	Edward Salisbury Dana	1877	29
	Rock-forming minerals	W. A. Deer	1962	28
	A System of Mineralogy:	James D. Dana	1837	27
	Bulletin de la Société française de minéralogie et de cristallographie	Société française de minéralogie et de cristallographie	1878	20
	Rocks & Minerals (DK Eyewitness Books)	R. F. Symes	1988	19
	Organic remains of a former world	James Parkinson	1804	18
	Elements of mineralogy	Frank Rutley	1916	15
	Manual of qualitative blowpipe analysis and determinative mineralogy	William Elderhorst	1856	14
	Science for the school and family	Worthington Hooker	1863	14
	Mineralogy simplified	Henry Erni	1885	14
	Minerals and how to study them	Edward Salisbury Dana	1895	14
	Minerales	Richard Spilsbury	2011	13
	Petrology for students	Harker, Alfred	1895	12
	Rocks and rock minerals	Louis V. Pirsson	1908	12
	Mineralogische Tabellen	Hugo Strunz	1941	12
	Lehrbuch der Mineralogie	Gustav Tschermak	1884	11
	An introduction to the rock-forming minerals	W. A. Deer	1966	11
	Rocks and Minerals (Smithsonian Handbook)	Chris Pellant	1990	11
	Von den äußerlichen Kennzeichen der Fossilien	Abraham Gottlob Werner	1774	10
	System of Mineralogy	Robert Jameson	2011	10
	A system of chemistry	Thomson, Thomas	1802	9
	Elemente der Mineralogie	Carl Friedrich Naumann	1846	9
	A system of mineralogy	James Dwight Dana	1868	9
	Rocks and minerals	Herbert S. Zim	1957	9
	Traité de minéralogie	René Just Haüy	1801	8
	Treatise on mineralogy	Shepard, Charles Upham	1832	8
	Mineral deposits	Waldemar Lindgren	1919	8

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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