Most valuable class of gemstone, generally diamond, sapphire, emerald, and ruby
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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.
Anselmus Boetius de BoodtDate: 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.
Louis-Jacques GoussierDate: [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.
TheophrastusDate: 1774- Books
Ratnavijnāna / Rādhākṛṣṇa Pārāśara ; bhumikā-lekhaka, Priyavrata Śarmā.
Pārāśara, Rādhākr̥ṣṇaDate: 1998- Books
Gemmarum et lapidum historia / quam olim edidit Anselmus Boetius de Boot Brugensis. Nunc vero recensuit, à mendis repurgavit, commentariis et pluribus melioribusque figuris illustravit & multo locupletiore indice auxit Adrianus Toll.
Anselmus Boetius de BoodtDate: 1636