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• Decoration and ornament -- Early works to 1800
• Early works to 1800

• Gem carving -- Early works to 1800
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• Gems, Ancient -- Early works to 1800
• Gems, Classical -- Early works to 1800
• Pearls -- Early works to 1800
• Gems -- Austria -- Vienna -- Early works to 1800
• Gems -- Catalogs -- Early works to 1800
• Gems -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1800
• Gems -- Folklore -- Early works to 1800
• Gems -- Germany -- Cologne -- Early works to 1800
• Gems -- Italy -- Florence -- Early works to 1800
• Gems -- Private collections -- Italy -- Early works to 1800
• Gems -- Private collections -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- Early works to 1800
• Gems -- Rome -- Early works to 1800

• A treatise on the ancient method of engraving on precious stones, compared with the modern. Illustrated with copper plates. (Printed for the author..., 1754), by Lorenz Natter, Cornelius Heinrich Hemmerich, John Miller, and Ignace Fougeron (page images at HathiTrust)
• Della storia naturale delle Gemme, delle Pietre e di tutti minerali, ovvero della fisica sotterranea (nella stamperia di Gennaro Muzio, erede di Michele Luigi :, 1730), by Giacinto Gimma, Felice Mosca, Gennaro Muzio, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Della storia naturale delle gemme, delle pietre e di tutti minerali, ovvero della fisica sotterranea (nella stamperia di Felice Mosca :, 1730), by Giacinto Gimma, Felice Mosca, Gennaro Muzio, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Achates Tiberianus, sive Gemma Caesarea, antiquitate, argumento, arte, historiâ, prorsùs incomparabilis, et cui parem in orbe terrarum, non est reperire, D. Augusti apotheosin Imp. Caes. Tiberii, Augustaeqúe Juliae domus, seriem & iconas, gentesque bello captas repreasentans, ante annos propè mille & septingentos caelata: quae in sacro regis christianissimi gazophylacio asservatur, et personarum, figurarumq[́ue], quae in eo cymelio visuntur exsculptae, nova notitia & explicatio, notis historicis illustrata: auctore Jacobo Le Roy, libero barone S.R.I. Acceserunt & aliorum hujus gemmae interpretum dissertationes, nec non alterius gemmae Augusteae (Prostant Bruxellis apud Franciscum Foppens, 1683), by Jacques Le Roy and Peter Paul Rubens (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)
• Pomp. Gavrici Neapolitani De scvlptvra liber ([publisher not identified], 1609), by Pomponio Gaurico, Philostratus the Athenian, Aldo Manuzio, Abraham van Goorle, and Louis de Montjosieu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber die Gemmenkunde : zur Ankündigung einer Schulfeierlichkeit im Kloster Bergen am 29 März um 2 Uhr und am 30 März um halb 2 Uhr (Bei Georg Christian Keil, 1798), by J. Gurlitt, Georg Christian Keil, and Schule des Klosters Bergen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gemmae antiquae litteratae, aliaequae rariores (Sumptibus Venantii Monaldini ... :, 1757), by Francesco Ficoroni, Giovanni Battista Sintes, Giovanni Zempel, Venanzio Monaldini, and Niccolo Galeotti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Etwas über Memnons Bildsäule, Neros Smaragd, Toreutik und die Kunst der Alten in Stein und Glas zu schneiden, als Zusätze zur Abhandlung über die Reformen in der Mineralogie (Bey C.G. Fleckeisen, 1792), by A. F. Veltheim and C. G. Fleckeisen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Delle gemme (Appresso Gio. Battista, Marchio Sessa et fratelli, 1565), by Camillo Leonardi and Lodovico Dolce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antiqua schemata gemmarum anualarium (Typis Sebastiani Sardi, 1653), by Fortunio Liceti, Sebastiano Sardi, and Giovanni Georgi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thesaurus gemmarum antiquarum astriferarum quae e compluribus dactyliothecis selectae aereis tabvlis CC. insculptae obseruationibus inlustrantur adiectis parergis LX. : Atlante Farnesiano prolegomenis. Diatribis III. Dissertationibus XV. et indicibus (Ex officina typogr. Albiziniana, 1750), by Antonio Francesco Gori and Giovanni Battista Passeri (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monumenti antichi inediti (Roma : Dai torchj di Carlo Mordacchini, 1821., 1821), by Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Stefano Raffei, Carlo Mordacchini, and Pietro Paolo Montagnani (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorie degli intagliatori moderni in pietre dure, cammei, e gioje dal secolo XV. fino al secolo XVIII. (Per Gio. Paolo Fantechi e compagni, 1753), by Andrea Pietro Giulanelli, Giovanni Paolo Fantechi, Pierre-Jean Mariette, and Giorgio Vasari (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recueil de trois cent têtes et sujets de composition gravés par Mr. le comte du Caijlus d'après les pierres gravées antiques du Cabinet du Roi. (Basan, 1775), by Anne Claude Philippe Caylus (page images at HathiTrust)

• A treatise on the ancient method of engraving on precious stones, compared with the modern. Illustrated with copper plates. (Printed for the author..., 1754), by Lorenz Natter, Cornelius Heinrich Hemmerich, John Miller, and Ignace Fougeron (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le gemme antiche figurate (Per Gio. Giacomo Komarek ..., 1700), by Michel Ange de La Chausse, Thomas Inman, Barry Maxwell Farnham, and Jerry and Gene Jones Jefferson Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduzione allo studio delle pietre intagliate : dal francese nell' idioma italiano ridotta (Dalle stampe Del Solli, 1807), by A. L. Millin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Etwas über Memnons Bildsäule, Neros Smaragd, Toreutik und die Kunst der Alten in Stein und Glas zu schneiden, als Zusätze zur Abhandlung über die Reformen in der Mineralogie (Bey C.G. Fleckeisen, 1792), by A. F. Veltheim and C. G. Fleckeisen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Orfevre-jouaillier, metteur en œuvre : contenant onze planches. (Chez Briasson, rue Saint Jacques, à la Science, 1771), by J. R. Lucotte and Robert Bénard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gravure, en taille-douce, en maniere noire, maniere de crayon, &c., contenant neuf planches. Gravures en pierres fines, contenant trois planches. Gravure en lettres, en géographie et en musique, contenant deux planches. Gravure en médailles et en cachets, contenant cinq planches. Gravure en bois, contenant trois planches. (Panckoucke, 1782), by Augustin Saint-Aubin, Benoît Louis Prévost, J. R. Lucotte, Juste-Nathan Boucher, and Robert Bénard (page images at HathiTrust)

• A treatise on the ancient method of engraving on precious stones, compared with the modern. Illustrated with copper plates. (Printed for the author..., 1754), by Lorenz Natter, Cornelius Heinrich Hemmerich, John Miller, and Ignace Fougeron (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gemmae antiquae ex thesauro Mediceo (Ex typographia Michaelis Nestenus et Francisci Moücke, 1731), by Antonio Francesco Gori (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abraxas proteus, seu multiformis gemmae basilidianae portentosa varietas (Ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti, 1657), by Joannes Macarius, Balthasar Moretus, Jacques van Werden, and Jean Chifflet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gemmarum et numismatum quae in Electorali cimeliarchio continentur elegantiorum aere expressa, et convenienti commentario illustrata dispositio (Typis Philippi Delborn, 1685), by Lorenz Beger, Philipp Delborn, and Johann Ulrich Krauss (page images at HathiTrust)

• A select collection of drawings from curious antique gems : most of them in the possession of the nobility and gentry of this kingdom : etched after the manner of Rembrandt (Printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidge ... and M. Wicksteed ..., 1768), by T. Worlidge (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gemmae et sculpturae antiquae, depictae ab Leonardo Augustino Senensi (Apud Leonardum Strik bibliopolam, 1694), by Leonardo Agostini, Leonardus Strik, G. van Houten, and Jacobus Gronovius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorie degli antichi incisori che scolpirono i loro nomi in gemme e cammei (G. Cambiagi, stampatore, 1784), by Domenico Agostino Bracci and Gaetano Cambiagi (page images at HathiTrust)
• De re vestiaria veterum praecipue de lato clavo libri duo (Ex Officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti, 1665), by Albert Rubens and Gio. Battista Doni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Descrizione istorica del museo di Cristiano Denh ... (Dalle stampe di Generoso Salomoni, 1772), by Francesco Maria Dolce, Generoso Salomoni, Georg Abraham Nagel, and Domenico Cunego (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gemme antiche figvrate (Appresso Gio. Battista Bussotti, 1686), by Leonardo Agostini, Giovanni Battista Bussotti, Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi, and Giovanni Pietro Bellori (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contemplatio gemmarum quarundam dactyliothecae Gorlaei, ante biennium & auctae, & illustratae (Imprimebat Ulricus Liebpertus ..., 1697), by Lorenz Beger and Ulrich Liebpert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gemme antiche figurate di Leonardo Agostini senese (Apud Abrahamum Blooteling, 1685), by Leonardo Agostini, Abraham Blooteling, and Jacobus Gronovius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spicilegium antiqvitatis, sive, Variarum ex antiquitate elegantiarum (Typis Ulrici Liebperti ..., 1692), by Lorenz Beger and Ulrich Liebpert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collection of gems : taken from the classics (Printed for Claude du Bosc, and William Darres, Booksellers, 1741), by George Ogle and Claude Du Bosc (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Treatise on Diamonds and Pearls (fourth edition; London: E. Lumley, n.d.), by David Jeffries (illustrated HTML pages at farlang.com)
• Diamonds and pearls (Printed by C. and J. Ackers, in St. John's-Street, for the author, 1751), by David Jeffries, John Ackers, and Charles Ackers (page images at HathiTrust)

• Choix des pierres gravées du Cabinet impérial des antiques : représentées en XL. planches : décrites et expliquées (De l'imprimerie de Joseph Noble de Kurzbek ..., 1788), by Joseph Eckhel and Joseph Kurzböck (page images at HathiTrust)

• A catalogue of the noble collection of pictures, miniatures, bronzes, gems, magnificent embossed plate, ornaments in gold and silver, coins and medals, China, Japan, &c. of the right honourable Lady Elizabeth Germain, lately deceas'd : being the collection of the old Earls of Peterborough, and also part of the Arundelian collection : which ... will be sold by auction by Mr. Langford and Son, at their house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Wednesday the 7th of this instant March 1770, and the three following days ... (Catalogues of which may then be had at Mr. Langford's ..., 1770), by Mr. Langford and Son and Elizabeth Germain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue S. Maurice ([Paris] : Ce catalogue se distribue a Paris, chez ledit Sieur Paillet, audit Hôtel de Bullion, rue Plâtriere; ledit Sieur Milliotti, rue Grenier Saint-Lazare, no 4; et Me. Boileau, huissier-priseur-commissaire aux ventes, rue du Bacq, no 262, 1785., 1785), by A. J. Paillet, Charles-Paul-Jean-Baptiste de Bourgevin Vialart de Saint-Morys, Louis-François Prault, L. F. J. Boileau, Alphonzo Milliotti, and France) Hôtel de Bullion (Paris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue des pierres gravées par Louis Siriès, orfévre du roi de France, présentemene directeur des ouvrages en pierre dure de la Galerie de S.M imperiale a Florence. (A Florence : Chez André Bonducci, MDCCLVII [1757], 1757), by Louis Siriès and Andrea Bonducci (page images at HathiTrust)

• The mirror of stones : in which the nature, generation, properties, virtues and various species of more than 200 different jewels, precious and rare stones, are distinctly described ... (Printed for J. Freeman ... , 1750), by Camillo Leonardi (page images at HathiTrust)

• Delle gemme (Appresso Gio. Battista, Marchio Sessa et fratelli, 1565), by Camillo Leonardi and Lodovico Dolce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tesoro delle gioie : trattato cvrioso (Per il Conzatti, 1676), by Giovanni Battista Ardemanio and Zaccaria Conzatti (page images at HathiTrust)

• Collection des pierres antiques dont la chasse des SS. Trois Rois Mages est enrichie dans l'Église metropolitaine à Cologne : gravées après leurs empreintes : avec un discours historique analogue (Dans l'Imprimerie electorale de la cour :, 1781), by Joannes Philippus Neris Maria Vogel and Dupuis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gemmae antiquae ex thesauro Mediceo (Ex typographia Michaelis Nestenus et Francisci Moücke, 1731), by Antonio Francesco Gori (page images at HathiTrust)

• Thesaurus antiquarum gemmarum (sumptibus Venantii Monaldini. Ex typographia Sancti. Ignatii. Excudebat Joannes Generosus Salomoni, 1751), by Pietro Santi Bartoli and Niccolò Galeotti (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gemmae selectae antiquae e museo Jacobi de Wilde : sive L. tabulae diis deabusque gentilium ornatae, per possessorem conjecturis, veterumque poetarum carminibus illustratae. (Sumptibus auctoris, 1707), by Jacob de Wilde, Adriaan Schoonebeek, Romeyn de Hooghe, and Pieter van den Berge (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dissertatio de larvis scenicis et figuris comicis antiquorum Romanorum (sumptibus Venantii Monaldini, bibliopolae in Via Cursus. Typis Angeli Rotilii in aedibus Maximorum, 1754), by Francesco Ficoroni, Angelo Rotili, Silvio Pomarede, B. De Petris, Venanzio Monaldini, and Francesco Mazzoni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thesaurus eruditae antiquitatis (Ex typographia Joannis Jacobi Komarek Boëmi, 1690), by Michel Ange de La Chausse, Giovanni Giacomo Komarek, Pietro Santi Bartoli, Carlo Maratti, Ludovico Gimignani, and Nicolò Billy (page images at HathiTrust)

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