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Amber -- Early works to 1800

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• Ambrae historiam : ad omnipotentis Dei gloriam et hominum sanitatem (Sumptibus haered. D. Tobiae Mevii & Elerdi Schumacheri :, 1666), by Justus Fidus Klobius, Matthäus Henckel, Elerd Schumacher, and Tobias Mevius Erben (page images at HathiTrust)
• Succincta succini prussica historia et demonstratio (Impensis Joh. Michael Rüdiger, 1699), by Philipp Jacob Hartmann (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Tears of the Heliades: or, Amber as a Gem (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; London: S. Low, Marston and Co., 1900), by William Arnold Buffum
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Gewinnung (G. Fischer, 1887), by W. Tesdorpf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die im Bernstein befindlichen organischen Reste der Vorwelt, gesammelt (In Commission der Nicolaischen Buchhandlung, 1845), by Georg Carl Berendt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The tears of the Heliades; or, Amber as a gem (S. Low, Marston & co., 1898), by W Arnold Buffum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die rechtlichen verhältnisse des bernsteinbergbaus im Samlande (Gebrüder Böhm, 1911), by Kurt Seidl (page images at HathiTrust)
• A short history of amber in explanation of the amber collections made by the royal amberworks of Königsberg, Pr., Germany. (Druck von E. Rautenberg, 1913) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guidelines for enhancement of visual conspicuity of trains at grade crossings. Final report. (1975), by John B. Hopkins and A. T. Newfell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cost analysis for upgraded passenger car rear signal lighting requirements. Final report. (1980), by R. F. McLean, H. Wakeley, and O. J. Viergutz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statistical evaluation of the effectiveness of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 108: Side Marker Lamps (Only). Final report. (1980), by Jim C. Knoop, Gaylord M. Northrop, and John T. Ball (page images at HathiTrust)
• Im Bernsteinwald (Franckh, 1927), by Wilhelm Bölsche (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ursprung und bedeutung des bernsteinnamens elektron. (Braunsberg, 1859), by Franz Beckmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amber (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1934), by Alice Virginia Petar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Im Bernsteinwald. (Kosmos, Gesellschaft der Naturfreunde, 1927), by Wilhelm Bölsche (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ambrosiaca ... (Upsaliæ, 1759), by Carl von Linné and Jacob Hideen (page images at HathiTrust)
• La collezione die ambre siciliane posseduta dal Museo di mineralogia della R. Università di Bologna ... E nuove considerazioni sull' origine dell' ambra gialla ... (Tip. Gamberini e Parmeggiani, 1890), by Luigi Bombicci and Università di Bologna. Museo di mineralogia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das recht auf zueignung der von der see ausgeworfenen oder angespüsten meeres-producte und das bernstein-regal (W. Koch, 1874), by Wilhelm von Brünneck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amber. (Putnam;, 1900), by W. Arnold Buffum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amber (Emergency Fund for Russian Refugees in Constantinople and the Balkan States, 1922), by Elizabeth F. Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'ambre taillé ou véritable et l'ambre moulé ou faux dans l'antiquité. Recherches chimiques et archéologiques (Imprimerie de vve J. Baertsoen, 1876), by D.-A. van Bastelaer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amber: its physical properties and geological occurrence (Field Museum of Natural History, 1923), by Oliver C. Farrington (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study of amber spiders (Connecticut academy of arts and sciences, 1942), by Alexander Petrunkevitch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Meister der Bernsteinkunst (Karl W. Hiersemann, 1918), by Otto Pelka (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bernstein (R. C. Schmidt & co., 1920), by Otto Pelka (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die fischerei-gesetzgebung im preussischen staate. Eine sammlung der auf die fischerei, bernstein-fischerei und das strandrecht bezüglichen gesetze und verordnungen und entscheidungen der obersten gerichtshöfe. Mit besonderer berücksichtigung aller in der preussischen monarchie, incl. der neu erworbenen landestheile bestehenden provinzialrechte. (C.S. Liebrecht, 1868), by Prussia (Kingdom) and G. M. Kletke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collection of Mr. John L. Graves of Boston, Mass. Part I : comprising remarkable east Indian jewelry, European and American paintings ... : to be sold at unrestricted public sale in ten afternoon and evening sessions ... beginning on Monday, April 8, 1912 ... (New Yok : Anderson Galleries, [1912], 1912), by Inc Anderson Galleries (page images at HathiTrust)
• Daniel S. Miller art collection (New York : Samuel Marx, 1916., 1916), by Samuel Marx (Firm) and N.Y.) Hotel Savoy (New York (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fahrten des Pytheas in der Ostsee (k.k. Gymnasial-Direction, 1893), by Georg Mair (page images at HathiTrust)

• The ants of the Baltic amber (B.G. Teubner, 1914), by William Morton Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Jenseits der Rhipäen. C, Der karthagische Admiral Himilko, ein Vorläufer und Wegweiser des Pytheas von Massilien : ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Bernsteinhandels (L. Bontempo, 1899), by Georg Mair (page images at HathiTrust)

• Beitrag zur Geschichte des nordischen Bernsteinhandels... (Schleswig, 1840), by E. C. Werlauff (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Essay about the Origine and Virtue of Gems (London: Printed by W. Godbid, 1672), by Robert Boyle (page images at farlang.com)
• A Lapidary: or, The History of Pretious Stones (Cambridge: Printed by Thomas Buck, 1652), by Thomas Nicols (illustrated HTML pages at farlang.com)
• Traité des pierres (A Paris : Chez Jean-Thomas Herissant, libraire, rue S. Jacques, à S. Paul & à S. Hilaire, MDCCLIV [1754], 1754), by Theophrastus, Marie-Marguerite Lottin, John Hill, and Jean-Thomas Hérissant (page images at HathiTrust)
• De mensuribus et ponderibus. De gemmis.-Pseudo-Epiphanii homiliae (T.O. Weigel, 1862), by Saint Epiphanius, Wilhelm Dindord, bp. of Hermiane Facundus., Pietro Francesco Foggini, and Denis Petau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art de la verrerie (chez Durand .... chez Pissot ..., 1752), by Florentin Antoine Neri, Bourlamaque, Macquer, Pissot, A. Durand, Johann Christian Orschall, Johannes Kunckel, Christopher Merret, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Caspari Bauhini ... De Lapidis bezaar Orient. et Occident. Cervini item et Germanici : ortu, natura diferentiis veróque usu de veterum & recentiorum placitis liber hactenus non editus. (apud Conr. Waldkirch, 1613), by Caspar Bauhin, Conrad Waldkirch, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ioannis de Laet ... De gemmis et lapidibus libri duo. Quibus praemittitur Theophrasti liber de lapidibus, Graece & Latine cum brevibus annotationibus (Ex officina Ioannis Maire, 1647), by Joannes de Laet and Theophrastus (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay about the origine & virtues of gems : wherein are propos'd and historically illustrated some conjectures about the consistence of the matter of precious stones, and the subjects wherein their chiefest virtues reside (Printed by William Godbid, and are to be sold by Moses Pitt ..., 1672), by Robert Boyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parfaict ioaillier, ov, Histoire des pierreries (Chez Iean-Antoine Huguetan, marchand libraire, en ruë Merciere, à l'Enseigne de la Sphere, 1644), by Anselmus de Boodt, Jean Antoine Huguetan, Adrianus Tollius, and Jean Bachou (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vollkommene Glasmacher-Kunst (In Verlegung des Autoris, 1679), by Johannes Kunckel, Nicolaus Häublin, Lucinos a Lhibenau, Christopher Merret, and Antonio Neri (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gemmarvm et lapidvm historia (Typis Wechelianis apud Claudium Marnium & heredes Ioannis Aubrii, 1609), by Anselmus de Boodt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gemmarum et lapidum historia, quam olim edidit Anselmus Boetius de Boot Brugensis, nunc vero recensuit, à mendis repurgavit, commentariis & pluribus melioribusque figuris illustravit & multo locupletiore indice auxit Adrianus Toll. (J. Maire, 1636), by Anselmus de Boodt and Adrianus Tollius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des pierres précieuses et des pierres fines : avec les moyens de les connoître & de les évaluer (Chez Jean Schweighauser, 1778), by L. Dutens and Johann Schweighäuser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gemmarum et lapidum historia. (Ex officina Joannis Maire., 1636), by Anselmus de Boodt and Adrianus Tollius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dodici pietre pretiose (Appresso Giouanni Martinelli, 1587), by Andrea Bacci (page images at HathiTrust)
• Delle gemme (Appresso Gio. Battista, Marchio Sessa et fratelli, 1565), by Camillo Leonardi and Lodovico Dolce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Majmū' al-ṣanā'i'. (1684), by Muḥammad Maghribī, Maḥmūd Khān Ṣāḥib, Dhūlfiqār 'Alī, and Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essay about the origine & virtues of gems wherein are propos'd and historically illustrated some conjectures about the consistence of the matter of precious stones, and the subjects wherein their chiefest virtues reside / by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq. ... (London : Printed by William Godbid, and are to be sold by Moses Pitt ..., 1672), by Robert Boyle (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A lapidary, or, The history of pretious [sic] stones with cautions for the undeceiving of all those that deal with pretious [sic] stones / by Thomas Nicols ... (Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] : Printed by Thomas Buck ..., 1652), by Thomas Nicols (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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