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Gems

Here are entered antiquarian or artistic works on engraved stones and jewels. Mineralogical and technological works on potential and actual engraved stones and jewels are entered under Precious stones.

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Gem Trader (New York: Sheridan House, c1939), by Louis Kornitzer (illustrated HTML pages at farlang.com)
Mediaeval Gem Engraving, by C. W. King (illustrated HTML pages at farlang.com)
Stories About Famous Precious Stones (Boston: D. Lothrop Co., c1890), by Adela E. Orpen
- Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
The Curious Lore of Precious Stones (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1913), by George Frederick Kunz (illustrated HTML pages at farlang.com)
Diamonds, Pearls and Precious Stones (Boston: Printed for Smith Patterson Co. by Griffith-Stillings Press, 1913), by Marcell Nelson Smith
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Gems: Notes and Extracts (London: Bell and Daldy, 1871), by Augusto Castellani, trans. by Mrs. John Brogden (page images at HathiTrust)
The Natural History, Ancient and Modern, of Precious Stones and Gems, and of the Precious Metals (London: Bell and Daldy, 1865), by C. W. King (illustrated HTML pages at farlang.com)
The Natural History of the Precious Stones and of the Precious Metals (London: Bell and Daldy, 1867), by C. W. King (illustrated HTML pages at farlang.com)
Precious Stones in Nature, Art and Literature (Boston: Bradlee Whidden, 1886), by S. M. Burnham (multiple formats at archive.org)
Diamonds and Precious Stones: A Popular Account of Gems (New York: Scribner, Armstrong, and Company, 1876), by Louis Dieulafait, trans. by Fanchon Sanford (page images at MOA)
Diamonds and Precious Stones: Their History, Value, and Distinguishing Characteristics; With Simple Tests For Their Identification. (second edition; London: J.C. Hotten, 1867), by Harry Emanuel (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Book of Talismans, Amulets and Zodiacal Gems (second and revised edition; London: William Rider and Son, 1922), by William Thomas Pavitt and Kate Pavitt (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
Selections from the language of gems; with short poems, original and selected, expressing their sentiments ... (New York, Printed by Baker & Godwin, 1875) (page images at HathiTrust)
Something about neglected gems ... ([New York, 1882]), by New York Jaques & Marcus (page images at HathiTrust)
Descriptio brevis gemmarum quae in museo Guil. S.R.J.L. Baronis de Crassier, Celsissimi Episcopi ac Principis Leodiensis in Camera Rationaria Consiliarii, &c. asservantur. (Leodii [Liège] : Typis Everardi Kints, bibliopolae, necnon Suae Celsitudinis typographi, 1740), by Guillaume-Paschal Crassier (page images at HathiTrust)
Veteris gemmae ad Christianum usum exscalptae brevis explanatio ad academicos Etruscos Cortonenses. (Romae : Ex Typographia Rochi Bernabò, 1732), by Francesco Vettori (page images at HathiTrust)
Introductions a l'étude de l'archéologie, des pierres gravées et des médailles / (Paris : Girard, 1826), by A. L. Millin, M. Champollion-Figeac, Bon-Joseph Dacier, and Jean-Baptiste-Bonaventure de Roquefort (page images at HathiTrust)
Nachrichten von sehenswürdigen Gemälde- und Kupferstichsammlungen : Münz- Gemmen- Kunst und Naturalienkabineten, Sammlungen von Modellen, Maschinen, physikalischen und mathematischen Instrumenten, anatomischen Präparaten und botanischen Gärten in Teutschland nach alphabetischer Ordnung der Städte / (Erlangen : Bey Johann Jakob Palm, 1786-1792), by Friedrich Karl Gottlob Hirsching (page images at HathiTrust)
Francisci Ficoronii Reg. Lond. Acad. socii dissertatio de larvis scenicis et figuris comicis antiquorum Romanorum, et ex Italica in Latinam linguam versa. (Romae, sumptibus Venantii Monaldini, bibliopolae in Via Cursus. Typis Angeli Rotilii in aedibus Maximorum, MDCCLIV [1754]), by Francesco Ficoroni, Angelo Rotili, Silvio Pomarede, B. De Petris, Venanzio Monaldini, and Francesco Mazzoni (page images at HathiTrust)
The Marlborough gems : being a collection of works in cameo and intaglio formed by George, third duke of Marlborough / (London : Printed for private distribution, 1870), by John Winston Spencer Churchill Marlborough and Nevil Story-Maskelyne (page images at HathiTrust)
Antique gems : their origin, uses, and value as interpreters of ancient history and as illustrative of ancient art : with hints to gem collectors / (London : J. Murray, 1866), by C. W. King (page images at HathiTrust)
Engraved gems : their history and place in art : in which is embodied the author's former treatise, with extensive revisions and additions, reminiscences of travels in the pursuit and acquisition of engraved gems, also interesting incidenst of their subjects : to which is added a descriptive list of the author's cabinet of gems, forming a compend of Greek and Roman classics and antiquities / (Philadelphia : Maxwell Sommerville, 1889), by Maxwell Sommerville (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 ... ([London] : Catalogues of which may then be had at Mr. Langford's ..., [1770]), by Mr. Langford and Son and Elizabeth Germain (page images at HathiTrust)
Gems & precious stones in the United States, Canada & Mexico [electronic resource] : a popular description ... by George F. Kunz. (London : H. Gray, [18--?]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Gems and precious stones of North America [electronic resource] : a popular description of their occurence, value, history, archaeology, and of the collections in which they exist, also a chapter on pearls and on remarkable foreign gems owned in the United States / (New York : Scientific Pub. Co., 1890), by George Frederick Kunz (page images at HathiTrust)
Francisci Ficoronii Reg. Lond. Acade. socii Gemmae antiquae litteratae, aliaequae rariores : accesserunt vetera monumenta ejusdem aetate reperta, quorum ipse in suis commentariis mentionem facit : omnia collecta, adnotationibus, et declarationibus / (Romae : Sumptibus Venantii Monaldini ... : Ex Typographia Joannis Zempel ..., 1757), by Francesco Ficoroni, Giovanni Battista Sintes, Giovanni Zempel, Venanzio Monaldini, and Niccolo Galeotti (page images at HathiTrust)
Ueber den Nutzen und Gebrauch der alten geschnittenen Steine und ihrer Abdrucke. (Altenburg, In der Richterischen Buchhandlung, 1768), by Christian Adolph Klotz, Giovanni Battista Casanova, Johann Michael Stock, and Harold Jantz Collection (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library) NcD (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 / (Helmstadt : Bey C.G. Fleckeisen, 1792), by A. F. Veltheim and C. G. Fleckeisen (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 ... / (London : Printed for J. Freeman ... , 1750), by Camillo Leonardi (page images at HathiTrust)
Introduzione allo studio delle pietre intagliate : dal francese nell' idioma italiano ridotta / (Palermo : Dalle stampe Del Solli, 1807), by A. L. Millin (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 / (Imprimé à Bonn : Dans l'Imprimerie electorale de la cour : Se vend chez l'auteur & dans la dite imprimerie, 1781), by Joannes Philippus Neris Maria Vogel and Dupuis (page images at HathiTrust)
Libri tre di m. Lodovico Dolce; ne i qvali si tratta delle diuerse sorti delle gemme, che produce la natura, della qvalità, grandezza, bellezza, & virtù loro. (In Venetia, Appresso Gio. Battista, Marchio Sessa et fratelli, [1565]), by Camillo Leonardi and Lodovico Dolce (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. (Amstelaedami : Sumptibus auctoris, 1703 [i.e. 1707]), by Jacob de Wilde, Adriaan Schoonebeek, Romeyn de Hooghe, and Pieter van den Berge (page images at HathiTrust)
Catalogue of mineralogical gems, mineralogical and petrological specimens, collections, etc. [electronic resource] / ([Ottawa? : The Company?], 1890), by C. P. Willimott & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
Canadian gems, precious stones and collections of minerals [electronic resource]. ([Ottawa? : s.n.], 1894) (page images at HathiTrust)
Mittheilung mannichfaltiger versuche und erfahrungen : edelsteine kunstgemass zu schleifen und sie in glasflussen tauschend annlich nachzubilden ... / (Weimar : Verlag, druck und lithographie von B. F. Voigt, 1841), by L. von Konneritz (page images at HathiTrust)
The tear of Soma, the legend of the pearl; (New York, Marcus & co., jewelers, [1901]), by Carlo de Fornaro (page images at HathiTrust)
The necklace of untold sighs, the legend of the coral; (New York, Marcus & co., jewelers, [1902]), by Carlo de Fornaro (page images at HathiTrust)
Krishna's gift, the legend of the diamond; (New York, Marcus & co., jewelers, [1901]), by Carlo de Fornaro (page images at HathiTrust)
Isvara's ring; the legend of the jade; (New York, Marcus & co., [1902]), by Carlo de Fornaro (page images at HathiTrust)
Vanadeva, the legend of the emerald; (New York, Marcus & co., [1902]), by Carlo de Fornaro (page images at HathiTrust)
Prince Tissa, the legend of the ruby; illustrations and text by Carlo de Fornaro. (New York, Marcus & co., jewelers, [1901]), by Carlo de Fornaro (page images at HathiTrust)
De gemmis Plinii, inprimis de topazio. Oryctologiae plinianae specimen primum. (Vratislaviae, apud J. Max et soc., 1824), by Ernst Friedrich Glocker (page images at HathiTrust)
Natural gemstones. ([Reston, Va.?] : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, [1992?]), by Geological Survey (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
An historical and descriptive account of the famous collection of antique gems possessed by the late Prince Poniatowski. Accompanied by poetical illustrations of the subjects, from classical authors, with an essay on ancient gems and gem-engraving, (London, Henry Graves, 1841), by James Prendeville and William Maginn (page images at HathiTrust)
The book of talismans, amulets and zodiacal gems / (Philadelphia : D. McKay, [1915]), by William Thomas Pavitt and Kate Pavitt (page images at HathiTrust)
Note overo memorie del mvseo di Lodovico Moscardo nobile veronese, academico filarmonico, dal medesimo descritte, et in tre libri distinte. Nel primo si discorre delle cose antiche, le quali in detto museo si trouano. Nel secondo delle pietre, minerali, e terre. Nel terzo de corali, conchiglie, animali, frutti, & altre cose in quello contenute. (In Padoa, Per Paolo Frambotto, 1656), by Ludovico Moscardo (page images at HathiTrust)
Arizona gem fields / (Yuma, Ariz. : A. Duke, 1960, c1956), by Alton Duke (page images at HathiTrust)
Dizionario istorico ragionato delle gemme, delle pietre, e de' minerale ... (Napoli, Coda, 1824), by Giovanni Robbio (page images at HathiTrust)
A catalogue of the collection of pearls and precious stones formed by Henry Philip Hope, esq., (London, Printed by William Clowes and Sons, 1839), by Henry Philip Hope and Bram Hertz (page images at HathiTrust)
Das Geschmeide, Schmuck- und Edelsteinkunde / (Berlin : A. Schall, 1903-1904), by Hermann Barth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Shiva, "the Destroyer"; the legend of the moonstone; (New York, Marcus & Co., [1902]), by Carlo de Fornaro (page images at HathiTrust)
Uttara, the legend of the turquoise, (New York, Marcus & Co., jewelers, [1902]), by Carlo de Fornaro (page images at HathiTrust)
Della storia naturale delle gemme, delle pietre e di tutti minerali, ovvero della fisica sotterranea / (In Napoli : nella stamperia di Felice Mosca : a spese dello stesso Mosca, e di Gennaro Muzio, 1730), by Giacinto Gimma, Felice Mosca, Gennaro Muzio, and ant. pos. BHI BH MED 6052 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 / (In Napoli : nella stamperia di Gennaro Muzio, erede di Michele Luigi : a spese dello stesso Muzio, e di Felice Mosca, 1730), by Giacinto Gimma, Felice Mosca, Gennaro Muzio, and ant. pos. BHI BH MED 6051 Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
A catalogue of one hundred impressions from gems, engraved by Nathaniel Marchant. (London : Printed for J. Edwards, Pall-Mall, 1792), by Francesco Bartolozzi, Lavinia Spencer, and James Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
Tesoro delle gioie : trattato curioso, nel quale si dichiara breuemente le virtù, qualità, e proprietà delle gioie, come perle, gemme, auori, vnicorni, bezaari, cocco, malacca, balsami, contr' herba, muschio, ambra, zibetto : e molt' altre cose più famose, e pregiate di tutti li diligenti scrittori antichi, moderni, arabi, greci, latini, italiani, sacri, & altri : lodate, stimate e conosciute saluteuoli e medicinali / (In Venetia : Per il Conzatti, 1676), by Giovanni Battista Ardemanio and Zaccaria Conzatti (page images at HathiTrust)
Monumens inédits de l'antiquité, statues, peintures antiques, pierres gravées, bas-reliefs de marbre et de terre cuite / (Paris : David [etc.], 1808-09), by Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Mlle Sibire, and François-Anne David (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Gemmarum antiquarum delectus : ex præstantioribus desumptus, quæ in dactyliothecus ducis Marlburiensis conservantur = Choix de pierres antiques gravées du cabinet du Duc de Marlborough. ([London : Marlborough, 1783]), by George Spencer Marlborough, William Cole, Jacob Bryant, Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Francesco Bartolozzi, and George Spencer Churchill Marlborough (page images at HathiTrust)
Gemmarum antiquarum delectus : ex præstantioribus desumptus, quæ in dactyliothecis ducis Marlburiensis conservantur = Choix de pierres antiques gravées du Duc de Marlborough. (Londini : Apud Joannem Murray, M.DCCC.XLV [1845]), by George Spencer Marlborough, William Cole, Jacob Bryant, Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Francesco Bartolozzi, and George Spencer Churchill Marlborough (page images at HathiTrust)
Traité des pierres précieuses et de la maniere de les employer en parure / (A Paris : Chez l'auteur ... et Chez Tilliard, Libraire ..., 1762), by Jean Henri Prosper Pouget and Mlle Raimbau (page images at HathiTrust)
Raccolta di trenta scelte incisioni in pietre dure appartenenti alcune al Real Museo Borbonico ed altre a private collezioni., by Italy) Real Museo borbonico (Naples (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 (Amstelaedami, Prostant Bruxellis apud Franciscum Foppens, 1683), by Jacques Le Roy and Peter Paul Rubens (page images at HathiTrust)
De gemmis et lapidibus pretiosis, eorumque viribus & usu tractatus, Italica lingua conscriptus ... nunc vero non solum in Latinum sermonem conversus, verum etiam ... annotationibus & observationibus auctior redditus, a Wolfgango Gabelchovero ... Cui accessit disputatio, de generatione auri in locis subterraneis, illiusque temperamento (Francofurti, Ex officina Matthiae Beckeri, impensis Nicolai Steinii, 1603), by Andrea Bacci, Johann Lange, and Wolfgang Gabelkover (page images at HathiTrust)
De omni rerum fosilium genere, gemmis, lapidibus, metallis, et huiusmodi, libri aliquot plerique nunc primum editi / (Tiguri : Excudebat Iacobus Gesnerus, 1565-1566), by Hans Jakob Gessner, Andreas Gessner, Francisco. De Apocalypsi meminit Rueo, Severin Goebel, Conrad Gessner, Georg Fabricius, Johannes Kentmann, Saint Epiphanius, Valerius Cordus, and Georg Agricola (page images at HathiTrust)
Dictionnaire d'orfévrerie, de gravure et de ciselure chrétiennes; ou, De la mise en oeuvre artistique des métaux, des émaux et des pierreries ... (Paris, J.-P. Migne, 1857), by Charles Texier (page images at HathiTrust)
Diamonds, pearls and precious stones; (Boston, Mass., Printed for Smith Patterson company by Atlantic printing company, 1914), by Marcell Nelson Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
Gems and precious stones of North America. (New York, The Scientific publishing company, 1892), by George Frederick Kunz (page images at HathiTrust)
The natural history of precious stones and of the precious metals / (London : Bell & Daldy, 1867), by C. W. King (page images at HathiTrust)
Catalogue of a cabinet of gems, cameos in relief, and other engraved stones, ambers, antique pastes, rings, etc., collected in Europe, Asia, and Africa, (Philadelphia, Sherman & Co., printers, 1877), by Maxwell Sommerville (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 (Florentiae : Ex officina typogr. Albiziniana, 1750), by Antonio Francesco Gori and Giovanni Battista Passeri (page images at HathiTrust)
The Morgan Whitney Collection of Chinese jades and other hard stones donated to the Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, City Park. (New Orleans, La., 1914), by Isaac Delgado Museum of Art and John Getz (page images at HathiTrust)
Museum Cortonense : in quo vetera monumenta complectuntur anaglypha, thoreumata, gemmae inscalptae insculptaeque quae in Academia etrusca ceterisque nobilium virorum domibus adservantur, in plurimus tabulis aereis distributum / (Romae : F. Amidei, 1750), by Accademia etrusca. Museo, Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Ridolfino Venuti, Antonio Francesco Gori, and Francesco Valesio (page images at HathiTrust)
Kulturhistoriske studier over aedelstene med saerligt henblik paa det 17. aarhundrede. (København og Kristiania, Fordisk forlag, 1915), by Axel Garboe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Romanum museum, sive, Thesaurus eruditae antiquitatis : in quo gemmae, idola, insignia sacerdotalia, instrumenta sacrificijs inservientia, lucernae, vasa, bullae, armillae, fibulae, claves, annuli, tesserae, styli, strigiles, gutti, phialae lacrymatoriae, vota, signa militaria, &c. centum & septuaginta tabulis aeneis incisa referuntur ac dilucidantur / (Romae : Ex typographia Joannis Jacobi Komarek Boëmi, an. sal. 1690), by Michel Ange de La Chausse, Giovanni Giacomo Komarek, Pietro Santi Bartoli, Carlo Maratti, Ludovico Gimignani, and Nicolò Billy (page images at HathiTrust)
Monumenti antichi inediti /, by Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Stefano Supplement (work): Raffei, Carlo Mordacchini, and Pietro Paolo Montagnani (page images at HathiTrust)
Museum Worsleyanum; or, A collection of antique basso relievos, bustos, statues and gems, with views of places in the Levant taken on the spot in the year MDCCLXXXV, VI and VII. (London, Published by Septimus Prowett, 1824), by Richard Worsley (page images at HathiTrust)
Handbook and descriptive catalogue of the collections of gems and precious stones in the United States National museum, (Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1922), by United States National Museum, Edgar Theodore Wherry, Margaret W. Moodey, and George P. Merrill (page images at HathiTrust)
Description des pierres gravées du feu Baron de Stosch : dediée a son eminence Monseigneur le cardinal Aléxandre Albani / (A Florence : Chez André Bonducci, 1760), by Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Josiah Wedgwood, Andrea Bonducci, Johann Justin Preissler, and Georg Martin Preissler (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., by Louis Siriès and Andrea Bonducci (page images at HathiTrust)
A treatise on the ancient method of engraving on precious stones, compared with the modern. Illustrated with copper plates. (London, Printed for the author..., 1754), by Lorenz Natter, Cornelius Heinrich Hemmerich, John Miller, and Ignace Fougeron (page images at HathiTrust)
The power of gems and charms, (London, Gay and Bird, 1907), by Geo. H. Bratley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The gem-cutter's craft, (London, Bell, 1906), by Leopold Claremont (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Notice sur Jacques Guay, graveur sur pierres fines du roi Louis XV., (Paris, Librairie de J. Baur, 1873), by Jean François Leturcq and Jeanne Antoinette Poisson Pompadour (page images at HathiTrust)
A list of books and pamphlets in the National Art Library, South Kensington Museum, illustrating gems. (London : Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1886), by National Art Library (Great Britain) and Great Britain. Department of Science and Art (page images at HathiTrust)
750 inscriptions de pierres gravées inédites ou peu connues,, by Edmond Frédéric Le Blant (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Abraxas seu Apistopistus; quae est antiquaria de gemmis basilidianis disquistio accedit Abraxas proteus seu multiformis gemmae basilidianae portentosa varietas; (Antwerpiae, ex officina plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti, 1657), by Joannes Macarius and Jean Chifflet (page images at HathiTrust)
The natural history, ancient and modern, of precious stones and gems, and of the precious metals / (London : Bell and Daldy, 1865), by C. W. King (page images at HathiTrust)
Diamonds, pearls and precious stones; where they are found, how cut, and made ready for use in the jeweler's art, their composition and value, (Boston, Mass., Printed for Smith Patterson company by Griffith-Stillings press, 1913), by Marcell Nelson Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
Diamonds, pearls and precious stones; where they are found, how cut, and made ready for use in the jeweler's art, their composition and value, by Marcell N. Smith; with sixteen illustrations. (Boston, Mass., Printed for Smith Patterson Company by Atlantic Printing Company, 1914), by Marcell N. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
Diamonds, pearls and precious stones where they are found, howcut, and made ready for use in the jeweler's art, their composition and value / (Boston, Mass., Printed for Smith Patterson company by Atlantic Printing Co., 1913), by Marcell Nelson Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
Siegel und gemmen mit aramäischen, phönizischen, althebräischen, himjarischen, nabathäischen und altsyrischen inschriften, (Breslau, Schletter'schebuchh., 1869), by M. A. Levy (page images at HathiTrust)
Gem stone production in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, North Carolina, Oregon, Maine, Utah, Nevada, and Tennessee / (Washington, DC : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1991), by Gordon T. Austin and United States. Branch of Industrial Minerals (page images at HathiTrust)
Symbolik der Thiere, der Blumen und Pflanzen und der Edelsteine. ([Leipzig], 1859), by Johann Georg Theodor Grässe (page images at HathiTrust)
Ein Edelstein der Vorzeit und seine Kulturhistorische Bedeutung. Nach einem im Rostocker Altertumsverein gehalten Vortrage ... (Stuttgart, Verlag von F. Enke, 1910), by Rudolf Kobert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A catalogue of one hundred impressions from gems, (London : Printed for J. Edwards, 1792), by Nathaniel Marchant (page images at HathiTrust)
Pounamu, notes on New Zealand greenstone, (London : T.J.S. Guilford & Co., Ltd., 1915), by Horatio Gordon Robley (page images at HathiTrust)
Kulturhistoriske studier over ædelstene med særligt henblik paa det 17. aarhundrede. (København og Kristiania, Gyldendal, Nordisk forlag, 1915), by Axel Garboe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The natural history of gems, or semi-precious stones. (London : [publisher not identified], 1870), by C. W. King (page images at HathiTrust)
Hieroglyphica, siue, Antiqua schemata gemmarum anularium : quaesita moralia, politica, historica, medica, philosophica, & sublimiora, omnigenam eruditionem & altiorem sapientiam attingentia / (Patauii : Typis Sebastiani Sardi, 1653), by Fortunio Liceti, Sebastiano Sardi, and Giovanni Georgi (page images at HathiTrust)
Diamants et pierres précieuses, (Paris, Hachette et cie, 1871), by Louis Dieulafait (page images at HathiTrust)
An essay on ancient coins, medals, and gems, as illustrating the progress of Christianity in the early ages. (London, F. Westley and A.H. Davis, 1830), by R. Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)
Collections of engraved gems. ([New York] The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [190-?]), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (page images at HathiTrust)
Catalogue of the Marlborough gems : being a collection of works in cameo and intaglio, formed by George, 3rd [i.e. 4th] duke of Marlborough, purchased by the late David Bromilow, of Bitteswell Hall, Lutterworth : the property of Mrs. Jary: which will be sold by auction by Christie, Manson & Woods ... June 26th, 1899, and three following days ... (London : [Printed by William Clowes and Sons], 1899), by John Winston Spencer Churchill Marlborough, Nevil Story-Maskelyne, and George Spencer Marlborough (page images at HathiTrust)
Descriptive catalogue of carved jades ... quartz ... etc. ([Minneapolis, Minn., 1913?]), by T. B. Walker and R.H. Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
H.K.E. Köhler's gesammelte schriften. (St. Petersburg, K. Akademie der wissenschaften, 1851-53), by Heinrich Karl Ernst von Koehler, Ludolf Stephani, and Akademii͡a nauk SSSR. (page images at HathiTrust)
Traité des pierres précieuses, des porphyres, granits, marbres, albâtres, et autres roches, propres à recevoir le poli et à orner les monumens publics et les édifices particuliers ... (Paris, F. Schoell, 1808), by C.-P. Brard (page images at HathiTrust)
Something about neglected gems ... ([New York, 1882]), by Jaques & Marcus (page images at HathiTrust)
Pyrgoteles : oder die edlen Steine der Alten im Bereich der Natur und der bildenden Kunst ; mit Berücksichtigung der Schmuck- und Siegelringe, insbesondere der Griechen und Römer / (Halle : Schwetschke, 1856), by Johann Heinrich Krause (page images at HathiTrust)
Trattato dei caratteri fisici delle pietre preziose per determinarle quando sieno lavorate, (Milano, Per Giovanni Pirotta, 1819), by René Just Haüy and Luigi Configliachi (page images at HathiTrust)
Handbuch der edelsteinkunde für mineralogen, steinschneider und juweliere, (Leipzig, F. A. Brockhaus, 1860), by Karl Emil Kluge (page images at HathiTrust)
Les pierres précieuses et les perles: pierres pour chaque mois, langage, vertus, origine, histoire, anecdotes. (Nice : Impr. Ventre, 1901), by Léon Sarty (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Gems and jewels : their history, geography, chemistry and ana. : from the earliest ages down to the present time / (London : Richard Bentley, 1860), by A. de Barrera (page images at HathiTrust)
Legends of gems; the strange beliefs which the astrological birthstones have collected through the ages, (Los Angeles, Calif., Graphic press, [c1937]), by Horace L. Thomson (page images at HathiTrust)
I︠U︡zhno-russkīi︠a︡ gemmy : neizdannye materīaly dli︠a︡ istorīi gravirovalʹnago iskusstva drevnikh narodov, zhivshikh v I︠U︡zhnoĭ Rossīi / (Berlin : Pechatano v tipografii Reĭnke i Grunvalʹd, 1910), by T. V. Kibalʹchich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Catalogue sommaire de l'orfèvrerie, de l'emaillerie et des gemmes du moyen age au XVIIe siècle, (Paris, G. Braun, [1914]), by Musée du Louvre and J. J. Marquet de Vasselot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Glaube und Aberglaube im Steinreich. (München : Weiffenbach, 1912), by Anton Max Pachinger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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Natal stones; birth stones, sentiments and superstitions associated with precious stones. (New York : Tiffany & co., [192-?]), by George Frederick Kunz (page images at HathiTrust)
Taschenbuch der Edelsteinkunde für Mineralogen, Techniker, Künstler und Liebhaber der Edelsteine / (Stuttgart : Julius Weise, 1834), by J. Reinhard Blum (page images at HathiTrust)
Jewelry and the precious stones; with a history, and description from models, of the largest individual diamonds known: including, particularly, a consideration of the Koh-i-noor's claim to notoriety. (Philadelphia, J. Penington & son, 1856), by Joseph R. Paxton (page images at HathiTrust)
Museum Worsleyanum, or, A collection of antique basso relievos, bustos, statues and gems : with views of places in the Levant taken on the spot in the years MDCCLXXXV VI and VII. (London : [From the Shakespeare Press, by W. Bulmer and Co.], 1794 [i.e. 1798-1803]), by Richard Worsley, Ennio Quirino Visconti, and W. Bulmer and Co (page images at HathiTrust)
The engraved gems of classical times, (Cambridge, University press, 1891), by J. H. Middleton and Fitzwilliam Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
Asneha, the legend of the opal; (New York, Marcus & Co., jewelers, [1902]), by Carlo de Fornaro (page images at HathiTrust)
Collection d'un archéologue-explorateur. Pierres gravées antiques la plupart acquises en Grèce et en Italie, avec quelques objets en marbre, terre cuite et bronze, et dont la vente aura lieu a Paris ... le lundi 8 mai 1905 ... (Paris, 1905), by Archéologue-explorateur (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Antiquities explained. Being a collection of figured gems illustrated by similar descriptions taken from the classics. (London, Printed by J. Bettenham, for C. Du Bosc, 1737), by George Ogle (page images at HathiTrust)
Diamonds and precious stones: their history, value, and distinguishing characteristics. (London : J. C. Hotten, 1867), by Harry Emanuel (page images at HathiTrust)
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Antique gems and rings. (London, Bell and Daldy, 1872), by C. W. King (page images at HathiTrust)
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Museo Worslejano. (Milano, Società tipogr. de' classici italiani, 1834), by Richard Worsley, Giovanni Labus, and Ennio Quirino Visconti (page images at HathiTrust)
Monumente des K.K. Münz- und Antiken-Cabinettes in Wien / (Wien : Leop. Sommer, 1849-1858), by Austria) K.K. Münz- und Antiken-Kabinet (Vienna and Joseph Arneth (page images at HathiTrust)
Histoire de la gravure sur gemmes en France depuis les origines jusqu'a l'époque contemporaine; (Paris, Société de propagation des livres d'art, 1902), by Ernest Babelon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Catalogue of the collection of antique gems formed by James, ninth earl of Southesk, K.T., (London, B. Quaritch, 1908), by James Carnegie Southesk and Lady Helena Mariota Carnegie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The science of gems, jewels, coins, and medals, ancient and modern., by Archibald Billing (page images at HathiTrust)
Aglaia, eller, Kundskab om symkkestene : en haandbog for damer / (Kjöbenhavn : J. Riise, 1830), by Christoph Hinrich von Sommer (page images at HathiTrust)
Dreizehn Gemmen aus der Sammlung (Bonn, A. Marcus, 1846), by Ludwig von Urlichs and Sibylla Mertens-Schaffhausen (page images at HathiTrust)
Notice des gemmes et joyaux / (Paris : C. de Mourgues, 1867), by Musée du Louvre, Henry Barbet de Jouy, and Galerie d'Apollon (page images at HathiTrust)
Leisure hours among the gems, (Boston, J.R. Osgood and Company, 1884), by Augustus C. Hamlin (page images at HathiTrust)
Amrita, the legend of the sapphire; (New York, Marcus & Co., jewelers, [1902]), by Carlo de Fornaro (page images at HathiTrust)
Die Kunst des Goldarbeiters, Silberarbeiters und Juweliers ... Nebst einem Anhange über Edelsteine und Perlen. (Weimar, B.F. Voigt, 1872), by Rudolf Kulmer (page images at HathiTrust)
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Mediaeval gem engraving. ([n.p., 18--?]), by C. W. King (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Catalogue of engraved gems of the classical style, (New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1920), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and Gisela M. A. Richter (page images at HathiTrust)
Johann Friderich Christ, ehemaligen öffentlichen Lehrers der Dichtkunst auf der Universität zu Leipzig, Abhandlungen über die Litteratur und Kunstwerke vornemlich des Alterthums / (Leipzig : Bey Ulrich Christian Saalbach, 1776), by Johann Friedrich Christ and Johann Carl Zeune (page images at HathiTrust)
Vollstaendiges Handbuch der Steinarbeiten; oder, Die Kunst alle Arten von Steinen und Schiefer zu gewinnen und zu Bausteinen, Platten, Dachschiefer, Tafeln, Mühlsteinen, Ornamenten, Gefässen, Geräthen, Röhren, Schmucksteinen u.s.w. mit der Hand und mit Maschinen zu bearbeiten. Nebst einem Anhang über künstliche Steinmassen ... (Weimar, B.F. Voight, 1862), by Carl Hartmann (page images at HathiTrust)
Gems / (Brooklyn, N.Y. : [s.n.], 1915), by Helen Bartlett Bridgman (page images at HathiTrust)
Edelsteinkunde für Mineralogen, Juweliere und Steinhändler; praktisches Lehr- und Hilfsbuch zur Untersuchung und Bestimmung von Edel- und Schmucksteinen, (Leipzig, H. Schlag Nachf., 1921), by Wilhelm Rau and J. Reinhard Blum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Ueber die Gemmenkunde : zur Ankündigung einer Schulfeierlichkeit im Kloster Bergen am 29 März um 2 Uhr und am 30 März um halb 2 Uhr / (Magdeburg : Bei Georg Christian Keil, 1798), by J. Gurlitt, Georg Christian Keil, and Schule des Klosters Bergen (page images at HathiTrust)
Explanatory catalogue of the proof-impressions of the antique gems possessed by the late Prince Poniatowski, and now in the possession of John Tyrrell, esq. ... / (London : Graves, 1841), by John Tyrrell, James Prendeville, and Stanisław Poniatowski (page images at HathiTrust)
Gems; notes and extracts, (London, Bell & Daldy, 1871), by Augusto Castellani and Mrs. John Brogden (page images at HathiTrust)
Galerie d'Apollon; notice des gemmes et joyaux, (Paris, Mourges, 1867), by Musée du Louvre. Département des objets d'art and M. Barbet de Jouy (page images at HathiTrust)
White lotus : the legend of the cat's eye / (New York : Marcus & Co., Jewelers, 1901), by Carlo de Fornaro (page images at HathiTrust)
L'art du lapidaire, (Paris, Garnier, libraire, 1830), by Honoré Lançon (page images at HathiTrust)
Notice sur le cabinet des médailles et des pierres gravées de Sa Majesté le roi des Paijs-Bas /, by J. C. Jonge (page images at HathiTrust)
Les pierres gravées du trésor de la Cathédrale de Troyes /, by Eugène Henri Le Brun-Dalbanne and France) Cathédrale de Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul (Troyes (page images at HathiTrust)
Engraved gems : their history & an elaborate view of their place in art / (Philadelphia : Sommerville, 1889), by Maxwell Sommerville (page images at HathiTrust)
Verzeichniss der geschnittenen Steine in dem Königlichen Museum der Alterthümer zu Berlin : [ehemalige von Stoschische Gemmensammlung / (Berlin : Königl. Akademie d. Wissenschaften, 1826), by Philipp Stosch and Johann Joachim Winckelmann (page images at HathiTrust)
Pierres gravées des collections Marlborough et d'Orléans, des recueils d'Eckhel, Gori, Lévesque de Gravelle, Mariette, Millin, Stosch, réunies et rééditées avec un texte nouveau, (Paris, Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1895), by Salomon Reinach (page images at HathiTrust)
Mani-málá; or, A treatise on gems. (Calcutta, 1879-81), by Sourindro Mohun Tagore (page images at HathiTrust)
Tier- und pflanzenbilder auf münzne und gemmen des klassischen altertums, (Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1889), by Friedrich Imhoof-Blumer and Otto Keller (page images at HathiTrust)
Diamants et pierres précieuses / (Paris : Hachette et cie, 1887), by Louis Dieulafait (page images at HathiTrust)
La merveilleuse doxologie du lapidaire / (A Paris : Édition du Mercure de France, 15, rue de l'Échaudé-St. Germain, MDCCCXCIII [1893]), by Louis Denise, contrib. by Mercure de France (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
The Lewis collection of gems and rings in the possession of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, with an introductory essay on ancient gems, (London : C.J. Clay and Sons, 1892), by J. H. Middleton, Samuel Savage Lewis, and Lewis Collection (Corpus Christi College) (page images at HathiTrust)
Au jardin des gemmes. (Paris, H. Piazza, [1924]), by Leonard Rosenthal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Antique gems etched by Worlidge, on copper-plates, in the possession of Sheffield Grace ... (London [Printed by Weed and Rider], 1823), by T. Worlidge (page images at HathiTrust)
Verzeichniss der geschnittenen steine in dem Königlichen museum der alterthümer zu Berlin. (Berlin, Bei C. G. Lüderitz, gedruckt in der druckerei der k. Akademie der wissenschaften, 1827), by Antiquarium (Berlin, Germany) and Philipp Stosch (page images at HathiTrust)
The magic and science of jewels and stones, (New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1922), by Isidore Kozminsky (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Erklärendes verzeichniss der antiken verieft geschnittenen steine der königlich preussischen gemmensammlung, (Berlin, Druckerei der Königlichen akademie der wissenschaften, 1835), by Antiquarium (Berlin, Germany) and Ernst Heinrich Tölken (page images at HathiTrust)
Handbook of engraved gems, (London, G. Bell and sons, 1885), by C. W. King (page images at HathiTrust)
The book of talismans, amulets and zodiacal gems, (Philadelphia, D. McKay, [1915]), by William Thomas Pavitt and Kate Pavitt (page images at HathiTrust)
Natal stones; sentiments and superstitions associated with precious stones, (New York, Tiffany & co., [1908?]), by George Frederick Kunz (page images at HathiTrust)
Choix des pierres gravées du Cabinet impérial des antiques représentées en XL. planches décrites et expliquées par m. l'abbé Eckhel ... (Vienne en Autriche, De l'imprimerie de J.N. Dekurzbek, 1788), by Joseph Hilarius von Eckhel and Vienna (Austria) K. K. Kunsthistorisches museum. Antikensammlungen (page images at HathiTrust)
Dactyliothecae, seu Annulorum sigillarium quorum priscos tam Graecos quam Romanos usus, ex ferro, aere, argento & auro promptuarii ... Collectis aliunde & ineditis & editis annulorum figuris auctior; (Lugduni Batavorum, excudit Petrus Vander Aa, 1695), by Abraham Gorlaeus and Bishop of Rennes Marbode, ed. by Jacobus Gronovius (page images at HathiTrust)
Tier- und Pflanzenbilder auf Münzen und Gemmen des klassischen Alterums, (Leipzig, Teubner, 1889), by Friedrich Imhoof-Blumer, Otto Keller, and Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS (page images at HathiTrust)
Instituzioni glittografiche o sia della maniera di conoscere la qualità, e natura delle gemme incise, e di giudicare del contenuto, e del pregio delle medesime compilate, e date in luce da Gioseff-Antonio Aldini ... (In Cesena, G. Biasini, 1785), by Giuseppe Antonio Aldini (page images at HathiTrust)
Magical jewels of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, particularly in England / (Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1922), by Joan Evans (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The art of gem cutting, complete. (Portland, Or., Mineralogist Pub. Co., c1949), by H. C. Dake (page images at HathiTrust)
The Pratt collection of jades and other hard stones at Vassar College. ([New York] Priv. print. [Marion Press], 1920), by John Getz and Vassar College. Art Gallery (page images at HathiTrust)
Pyrgoteles oder die edlen steine der alten im bereiche der natur und der bildenden kunst, mit berücksichtigung der schmuck- und siegelringe, insbesondere der Griechen und Römer, (Halle, G. Schwetschke'scher verlag, 1856), by Johann Heinrich Krause (page images at HathiTrust)
J. J. Bellermann's drei programmen über die abraxas-gemmen. (Berlin. In der Fr. Nicolaischen buchhandlung [Gedruckt bei Dieterici, 1817?]-20), by Joh. Joach. Bellermann and Berlinisch-Köllnisches gymnasium (page images at HathiTrust)
De gemma Abraxea nondum edita, (Ienae, in libraria Croeckeriana, 1848), by Johann Gustav Stickel (page images at HathiTrust)
The science of gems, jewels, coins, and medals, ancient and modern / (London : Bell & Daldy, 1867), by Archibald Billing (page images at HathiTrust)
Natal stones; sentiments and superstitions connected with precious stones: (New York, Tiffany & co., [c1802]), by George Frederick Kunz (page images at HathiTrust)
Natal stones; sentiments and superstitions associated with precious stones, (New York, Tiffany & co., [c1909]), by George Frederick Kunz (page images at HathiTrust)
Gems; facts, fantasies, superstitions, legends. (New York, Max Stern & co., 1947), by New York Stern (Max) and company (page images at HathiTrust)
An essay on ancient coins, medals, and gems, as illustrating the progress of Christianity in the early ages, (London, Howell and Stewart, 1828), by R. Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)
The Lewes house collection of ancient gems, (Oxford: The Clarendon press, 1920), by Edward Perry Warren, J. D. Beazley, and Boston Museum of Fine Arts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Antique gems: their origin, uses, and value as interpreters of ancient history; (London, J. Murray, 1860), by C. W. King (page images at HathiTrust)
A collection of fifty prints from antique gems. (London, J. Bodell, [1784]), by John Spilsbury (page images at HathiTrust)
Gemcraft : how to cut and polish gemstones / (Radnor, Penn. : Chilton, 1959), by Lelande Quick and Hugh Leiper (page images at HathiTrust)
Gem cutting / (Peoria, Ill. : Manual Arts Press, 1948), by J. Daniel Willems (page images at HathiTrust)
Francisci Ficoronii ... (Romæ, sumptibus Venantii Monaldini bibliopolæ, ex typographia Joannis Zempel, 1757), by Francesco Ficoroni and Niccolò Galeotti (page images at HathiTrust)
Gems and precious stones of North America. A popular description of their occurrence, value, history, archæology, and of the collections in which they exist, also a chapter on pearls, and on remarkable foreign gems owned in the United States. Illustrated with eight colored plates and numerous minor engravings. (New York, Scientific Pub. Co., 1890), by George Frederick Kunz (page images at HathiTrust)
Edelsteinkunde für mineralogen, juweliere und steinhündler. Practisches lehr. und hilfsbuch zur kenntais, untersuchung und bestimmung von edelsteinen nach einem älteren werke des prof. dr. Reinhard Blum; auf grund des heutigen standes der mineralogie, (Leipzig, Druck und verlag Herm. Schlag. nachf. (inh.: C. Hentze), 1907), by J. Reinhard Blum and Wilhelm Rau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Catalogue of the engraved gems in the British museum (Department of Greek and Roman antiquities.) (London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1888), by British Museum Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, A. S. Murray, and A. H. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
Thesaurus gemmarum antiquarum astriferarum quae e compluribus dactyliothecis selectae aereis tabulis CC. insculptae observationibus inlustrantur adiectis paregis LX. Atlante Farnesianoprolegomenis. Diatribis III. Dissertationibus XV et indicibus. (Florentiae, Ex. officina typogr. Albiziniana, 1750), by Antonio Francesco Gori and Giovanni Battista Passeri (page images at HathiTrust)
Precious gems and commercial minerals : San Diego County, California, the gem-adorned county of America / (San Diego : Press of Frye, Garrett & Smith, [190-?]), by William Hartley Holcomb (page images at HathiTrust)
The Lewis collection of gems and rings in the possession of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge; (London : C. J. Clay and sons, 1892), by Lewis Collection (Corpus Christi College), J. H. Middleton, and Samuel Savage Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
Cabinet de pierres antiques gravées, ou Collection choisie de 216 bagues et de 682 pierres, egyptiennes, étrusques, grecques, romaines, parthiques, gauloises, &c. tirées du cabinet de Gorlée, & autres célebres cabinets de l'Europe ... (Á Paris, Chez Lamy, 1778), by Abraham Gorlaeus (page images at HathiTrust)
The natural history of precious stones and of the precious metals, (London, Bell & Daldy, 1870), by C. W. King (page images at HathiTrust)
The curious lore of precious stones : being a description of their sentiments and folk lore, superstitions, symbolism, mysticism, use in medicine, protection, prevention, religion, and divination, crystal gazing, birthstones, lucky stones and talismans, astral, zodiacal and planetary / (Philadelphia ; London : J. B. Lippincott company, 1913), by George Frederick Kunz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Engraved gems; (Philadelphia, M. Sommerville, 1889), by Maxwell Sommerville (page images at HathiTrust)
Antique gems: their origin, uses, and value as interpreters of ancient history and as illustrative of ancient art/ (London: J. Murray, 1860), by C. W. King (page images at HathiTrust)
The magic of jewels and charms, (Philadelphia London, J. B. Lippincott company, 1915), by George Frederick Kunz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Traité des pierres gravées, (Paris, L'imprimerie de l'auteur, 1750), by Pierre-Jean Mariette and Bibliothèque nationale (France). Département des médailles et antiques (page images at HathiTrust)
Catalogue of the engraved gems and cameos, Greek, Etruscan and Roman in the British Museum, (London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1926), by British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities, A. H. Smith, and Henry Beauchamp Walters (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Lapeidarien : ein culturgeschichtlicher Versuch / (Berlin [s. n.], [1896?]), by Moritz Steinschneider (page images at HathiTrust)
Katalog gemm (dragot︠s︡i︠e︡nnykh ri︠e︡znykh kamneĭ) sobrannykh preimushchestvenno v iu︠z︡hnoĭ Rossii / (Kiev : Tip. I. Kryzhanovskago, 1896), by T. V. Kibalʹchich (page images at HathiTrust)
Antichnye reznye kamni Ėrmitazha; putevoditelʹ po vystavke. (Leningrad, 1926), by Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia) and M. I. Maksimova (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Dactyliotheca Smithiana. (Venetiis, ex typographio J. B. Pasqualii, 1767), by Antonio Francesco Gori and Joseph Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
Museum Odescalchum, sive, Thesaurus antiquarum gemmarum : cum imaginibus in iisdem insculptis, et ex iisdem exsculptis, quæ a serenissima Christina svecorum regina collectæ in museo Odescalcho adservantur, et a Petro Sancte Bartolo qvondam incisæ, nunc primum in lucem proferuntur. Accesserunt ærea deorum, ac dearum idola, marmorea item anaglypha, monumentaque alia plura, quibus explanationes una cum indicibus locupletissimis adjectæ sunt ... (Romæ, sumptibus Venantii Monaldini. Ex typographia Sancti. Ignatii. Excudebat Joannes Generosus Salomoni, 1751-52), by Pietro Santi Bartoli and Niccolò Galeotti (page images at HathiTrust)
Description des pierres gravées du feu Baron de Stosch / (Florence : André Bonducci, 1760), by Philipp von Stosch, ed. by Johann Joachim Winckelmann (page images at HathiTrust)
Le parfaict ioaillier, ou, Histoire des pierreries : où sont amplement descrites leur naissance, iuste prix, moyen de les cognoistre, & se garder des contre-faites, facultez medecinales, & proprietez curieuses / (A Lyon : Chez Iean-Antoine Huguetan, marchand libraire, en ruë Merciere, à l'Enseigne de la Sphere, MDCXLIV [1644]), by Anselmus de Boodt, ed. by Adrianus Tollius, trans. by Jean Bachou, contrib. by Jean Antoine Huguetan (page images at HathiTrust)
Pomp. Gaurici Neapolitani De sculptura liber. Ludo. Demontiosii De veterum sculptura, caelatura, gemmarum scalptura, & pictura libri duo. Abrahami Gorlaei Antverpiani Dactyliotheca. ([Antverpiae] : [publisher not identified], 1609), by Pomponio Gaurico, the Athenian Philostratus, Aldo Manuzio, Abraham van Goorle, and Louis de Montjosieu (page images at HathiTrust)
Description sommaire des pierres gravées du cabinet de feu M. Crozat /, by Pierre-Jean Mariette and M. Crozat (page images at HathiTrust)
Raccolta di gemme antiche figurate / (Roma : Pietro Paolo Montagnani-Mirabili, 1805), by Pietro Santi Bartoli and Michel Ange de La Chausse (page images at HathiTrust)
Memorie degli antichi incisori che scolpirono i loro nomi in gemme e cammei con molti monumenti, inediti di antichità, statue, bassirilievi, gemme; (Firenze, G. Cambiagi, stampatore, 1784-86), by Domenico Agostino Bracci and Gaetano Cambiagi (page images at HathiTrust)
Le gemme antiche figurate / (In Roma : Per Gio. Giacomo Komarek ..., MDCC [1700]), by Michel Ange de La Chausse, Thomas Inman, Barry Maxwell Farnham, and Jerry and Gene Jones Jefferson Collection (Library of Congress) DLC (page images at HathiTrust)
Gemmae antiqvae ex thesavro Mediceo et privatorvm dactyliothecis Florentiae : exhibentes tabvlis C. imagines virorvm illvstrivm et deorvm / (Florentiae : Ex typographia Michaelis Nestenus et Francisci Moücke, anno 1731-1732), by Antonio Francesco Gori (page images at HathiTrust)
Description des principales pierres gravées du cabinet de S.A.S. Monseigneur le duc d'Orléans : premier prince du sang. (Paris : Chez M. l'abbé La Chau, au Palais Royal : M. l'abbé Le Blond, au Collége Mazarin : Et chez Pissot, libraire, Quai des Augustins, 1780-1784), by F. Arnaud, Louis Philippe Joseph Orléans, Géraud de La Chau, Abbé Le Blond, Henri Coquille, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) DLC, and Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) DLC (page images at HathiTrust)
Memorie degli intagliatori moderni in pietre dure, cammei, e gioje dal secolo XV. fino al secolo XVIII. (In Livorno : Per Gio. Paolo Fantechi e compagni, MDCCLIII [1753]), by Andrea Pietro Giulanelli, Giovanni Paolo Fantechi, Pierre-Jean Mariette, and Giorgio Vasari (page images at HathiTrust)
Diamonds and precious stones: their history, value, and distinguishing characteristics. (London, J. C. Hotten, 1865), by Harry Emanuel (page images at HathiTrust)
Catalogue of the engraved gems and rings in the collection of Joseph Mayer ... (London : Printed for J. Mayer by Bradbury, Agnew, & co., 1879), by Joseph Mayer and Charles T. Gatty (page images at HathiTrust)
Engraved gems, signets, talismans and ornamental intaglios, ancient and modern / (New York : H. Holt, 1912), by Duffield Osborne (page images at HathiTrust)
H.K.E. Köhler's Kleine abhandlungen zur gemmenkunde ... (St. Petersburg, Druckerei der Kaiserlichen akademie der wissenschaften, 1851-52), by Heinrich Karl Ernst von Köhler, ed. by Ludolf Eduard Stephani (page images at HathiTrust)
Catalogue général et raisonné des camées et pierres gravées de la Bibliothèque impériale, (Paris, J. Claye [etc., 1858]), by Bibliothèque nationale (France). Département des médailles et antiques, Anatole Chabouillet, and France. Ministère de l'éducation nationale (page images at HathiTrust)
Natal stones; sentiments and superstitions associated with precious stones, (New York, Tiffany & co., [c1909]), by George Frederick Kunz (page images at HathiTrust)
Revised lapidary handbook, (Greenville, S. C., J. H. Howard, 1946), by James Harry Howard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Gems and precious stones of Mexico, (Mexico, Imprenta y fototipía de la Secretaría de fomento, 1907), by George Frederick Kunz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Diamonds and precious stones, a popular account of gems ... (New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and company, 1874), by Louis Dieulafait, trans. by Fanchon Sanford (page images at HathiTrust)
Les gemmes et joyaux de la couronne au Musée du Louvre / (Paris, L. Techener, 1886), by M. Barbet de Jouy, Alfred Darcel, Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart, and Musée du Louvre, contrib. by Léon Techener (page images at HathiTrust)
Catalogue of the collection of antique gems formed by James, ninth earl of Southesk, (London, B. Quaritch, 1908), by James Carnegie Southesk and Helena Mariota Carnegie (page images at HathiTrust)
Notizie storiche sull'origine e progressi dei lavori di commesso in pietre dure chi si eseguiscono nell'I. e R. stabilimento di Firenze / (Firenze : Stamperia granducale, 1853), by Antonio Zobi (page images at HathiTrust)
Catalogue de tableaux des trois écoles : dessins sous verre & en feuilles, formant une collection nombreuse par les plus célebres peintres italiens, françois, flamands & hollandois, estampes rares & autres au nombre de quarante porte feuilles, dont une grande quantité d'eaux-fortes par les meilleurs artistes, pierres gravées antiques & modernes, du plus beau choix, & montées en bagues, au nombre de plus de trois cens, tasses d'agathe, objets précieux en marbre & granit oriental, porcelaines anciennes, morceaux de laque du Japon, & autres effets curieux : le tout du cabinet de M. de S.M. /, 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)
Gems, selected from the antique : with illustrations. (London : J. Murray, 1804), by Richard Dagley (page images at HathiTrust)
The jeweled trail (New York, Sheridan house, [c1941]), by Louis Kornitzer (page images at HathiTrust)
Gem trader, (New York, Sheridan house, [c1939]), by Louis Kornitzer (page images at HathiTrust)
Antique gems: their origin, uses, and value as interpreters of ancient history; and as illustrative of ancient art: with hints to gem collectors. (London, J. Murray, 1866), by C. W. King (page images at HathiTrust)
Gemmae et sculpturae antiquae depictae, (Franequerae, apud L. Strik, 1694), by Leonardo Agostini, trans. by Jacobus Gronovius (page images at HathiTrust)
Gems, principally from the antique, (London, Hurst, Robinson, and co.; [etc., etc.], 1822), by Richard Dagley and George Croly (page images at HathiTrust)
List[s] of books and pamphlets in the National art library ... (London : H. M. Stationery off, 1882-), by National Art Library (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A descriptive catalogue of a general collection of ancient and modern engraved gems, cameos as well as intaglios, taken from the most celebrated cabinets in Europe; and cast in coloured pastes, white enamel, and sulphur, (London, J. Tassie [etc.], 1791), by Rudolf Erich Raspe and James Tassie (page images at HathiTrust)
Dactyliothec, das ist Sammlung geschnittener steine der alten avs denen vornehmsten myseis in Evropa sum nutzen der schonen kúnste vnd kýnstler. In zwey tavsend abdrýcken. ([Leipzig, Aus der druckerey Bernhard Christoph Breitkopfs und sohns], 1767), by Philipp Daniel Lippert (page images at HathiTrust)
Stories about famous precious stones, (Boston, D. Lothrop company, [1890]), by Adela E. Orpen (page images at HathiTrust)
Gems, (Brooklyn, N. Y., 1916), by Helen Bridgman (page images at HathiTrust)
Precious stones in nature, art, and literature; (Boston, B. Whidden, 1886), by S. M. Burnham (page images at HathiTrust)
Leisure hours among the gems, by Augustus C. Hamlin (Gutenberg ebook)
Gems in the Smithsonian Institution, by Paul E. Desautels (Gutenberg ebook)
The Curious Lore of Precious Stones: Being a description of their sentiments and folk lore, superstitions, symbolism, mysticism, use in medicine, protection, prevention, religion, and divination. Crystal gazing, birth-stones, lucky stones and talismans, astral, zodiacal, and planetary, by George Frederick Kunz (Gutenberg ebook)
Engraved Gems, by Maxwell Sommerville (Gutenberg ebook)
Il nuovo lume delle gioie: Opera utilissima ad'ogni persona, così a orefici, e speciali, per l'arte pratico. (in Italian), by Pietro Caliari (Gutenberg ebook)

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