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Gems

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  • A lapidary, sitting at his foot-operated grinding wheel (above), an elevation and plan of his worktable (below). Engraving by B. L. Prevost after J. N. F. Boucher.
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    De re metallica, hoc est de origine, varietate, et natura corporum metallicorum, lapidum, gemmarum, atque aliarum quae ex fodinis eruunter, rerum, ad medicinae usum deseruientium, libri III / Auctore Christophoro Encelio.

    Entzelt, Christoph, 1517-1583. | Date: 1557
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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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    Gemmae et sculpturae antiqvae depictae / ab Leonardo Avgvstino Senensi; addita earum enarratione, in Latinum versa ab Jacobo Gronovio. Cujus accedit præfatio.

    Agostini, Leonardo, 1593-approximately 1670. | Date: 1685
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    Papyrus graecus holmiensis (P. holm.) : recepte für silber, steine und purpur / bearbeitet von Otto Lagercrantz, mit zwei lichtdrucktafeln. Herausgegeben mit unterstützung des Vilh. Ekman'schen universitätsfonds.

    | Date: 1913]
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    Specvlvm lapidvm / Camilli Leonardi. Cvi accessit Sympathia septem metallorum ac septem selectorum lapidum ad planetas. D. Petri Arlensis de Scudalupis.

    Leonardi, Camillo, active 1502. | Date: 1610
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