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Le parfaict ioaillier, ou, Histoire des pierreries : où sont amplement descrites leur naissance, iuste prix, moyen de les cognoistre, & se garder des contrefaites, facultez medecinales, & proprietez curieuses / composé par Anselme Boece de Boot, medecin de l'empereur Rodolphe II ; et de nouueau enrichi de belles annotations, indices & figures, par André Toll, doct. med. de Leide.
Boodt, Anselmus de, 1550-1632.Date: M. DC. XLIV. [1644]
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A diamond cutters' wheel in use (top), and a plan and perspective of the wheel with various components (below). Etching by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 35929i
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[Theophrastou peri tōn lithōn biblion] = Theophrastus's history of stones. With an English version, and notes ... Also, Observations on the new Swedish acid, and of the stone from which it is obtained; and with an idea of a natural and artificial method of fossils / By John Hill.
Theophrastus.Date: 1774
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Ratnavijnāna / Rādhākṛṣṇa Pārāśara ; bhumikā-lekhaka, Priyavrata Śarmā.
Pārāśara, Rādhākr̥ṣṇa.Date: 1998
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Quilatador de oro, plata, y piedras / Compuesto por Juan de Arphe y Villafañe, natural de León, escultor de oro y plata, en las Casas Reales de la Moneda de Segovia ; dedicado a Don Pedro de Pomar.
Arfe y Villafañe, Juan de, 1847-1922.Date: 1678