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Precious stones

Here are entered mineralogical and technological works on potential and actual engraved stones and jewels. Antiquarian or artistic works on engraved stones and jewels are entered under Gems.

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• Minerals

• Gems

• Precious stones -- America
• Precious stones -- Arabian Peninsula
• Precious stones -- Arizona
• Precious stones -- California
• Precious stones -- Canada
• Precious stones -- Cape of Good Hope
• Precious stones -- Catalogs
• Precious stones -- Catalogs and collections
• Precious stones -- Catalogs. from old catalog
• Precious stones -- China
• Precious stones -- Collection and preservation
• Precious stones -- Colorado
• Precious stones -- Dictionaries
• Precious stones -- Early works to 1800
• Precious stones -- Egypt
• Precious stones -- Ethiopia
• Precious stones -- Folklore
• Precious stones -- Germany
• Precious stones -- Inclusions
• Precious stones -- India
• Precious stones -- Italy
• Precious stones -- Juvenile literature
• Precious stones -- Mexico
• Precious stones -- North America
• Precious stones -- North Carolina
• Precious stones -- Oklahoma
• Precious stones -- Periodicals
• Precious stones -- Popular works
• Precious stones -- Portugal
• Precious stones -- Private collections
• Precious stones -- Psychic aspects
• Precious stones -- Religious aspects
• Precious stones -- Russia (Federation)
• Precious stones -- Spain
• Precious stones -- Symbolic aspects
• Precious stones -- Tables
• Precious stones -- Testing
• Precious stones -- Texas
• Precious stones -- Therapeutic use
• Precious stones -- United States
• Precious stones -- Valuation
• Agates
• Amber
• Amethysts
• Beryl
• Corundum
• Diamonds
• Emeralds
• Garnet
• Jade
• Jadeite (Petrology)
• Jewel bearings
• Jewelry settings
• Malachite
• Moonstones
• Opals
• Precious stones in literature
• Precious stones, Artificial
• Sapphires
• Spinel
• Spodumene
• Topaz
• Tourmaline
• Turquoise
• Zircon
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Precious stones

• Gem minerals
• Gemstones
• Jewels
• Semi-precious stones
• Stones, Precious

• Theophrastus on Stones: Introduction, Greek Text, English Translation, and Commentary (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University, 1956), by Theophrastus, ed. by Earle Radcliffe Caley and John F. C. Richards (illustrated HTML pages at farlang.com)
• A Book of Precious Stones (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1910), by Julius Wodiska (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones (London: E. and F. N. Spon; New York: Spon and Chamberlain, 1911), by John Mastin (Gutenberg text and page images)
• 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)
• Diamonds, Pearls and Precious Stones (Boston: Printed for Smith Patterson Co. by Griffith-Stillings Press, 1913), by Marcell Nelson Smith
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• Gems and Gem Minerals (Chicago: A. W. Mumford, 1903), by Oliver C. Farrington (multiple formats at archve.org)
• Gems and Precious Stones (Sydney: C. Potter, 1896), by Henry G. Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Gems and Precious Stones of North America (New York: The Scientific Publishing Co., 1890), by George Frederick Kunz (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Gems: Notes and Extracts (London: Bell and Daldy, 1871), by Augusto Castellani, trans. by Mrs. John Brogden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The History of Jewels, and of the Principal Riches of the East and West (1671), by Samuel Chappuzeau (page images at farlang.com)
• The Natural History, Ancient and Modern, of Precious Stones and Gems, and of the Precious Metals (London: Bell and Daldy; Cambridge: Deighton, Bell and Co., 1865), by C. W. King (multiple formats at Google)
• The Natural History of Gems or Decorative Stones (1867), by C. W. King (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Natural History of the Precious Stones and of the Precious Metals (London: Bell and Daldy; Cambridge: Deighton, Bell and Co.,, 1867), by C. W. King (multiple formats at Google)
• A Popular Treatise on Gems, in Reference to Their Scientific Value: A Guide for the Teacher of Natural Sciences, the Lapidary, Jeweller, and Amateur, Together with a Description of the Elements of Mineralogy, and All Ornamental and Architectural Materials (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1859), by Lewis Feuchtwanger
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• A Popular Treatise on Gems, in Reference to Their Scientific Value: A Guide for the Teacher of Natural Sciences, the Lapidary, Jeweller, and Amateur, Together with a Description of the Elements of Mineralogy, and All Ornamental and Architectural Materials (third edition; New York: the author, 1867), by Lewis Feuchtwanger
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Precious Stones (New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1908), by Wilbert Goodchild, contrib. by Robert Dykes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Precious Stones: A Book of Reference for Jewellers (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1903), by Wallis Richard Cattelle (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Precious Stones and Gems, Their History, Sources and Characteristics (sixth edition; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1898), by Edwin W. Streeter (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Precious Stones Considered in Their Scientific and Artistic Relations; With a Catalogue of The Townshend Collection of Gems in The South Kensington Museum (new edition; London: Printed for the Committee of Council on Education, by Chapman and Hall, 1891), by A. H. Church (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Precious Stones Considered in Their Scientific and Artistic Relations; With a Catalogue of the Townshend Collection (new edition; London: H.M. Stationery off., 1905), by A. H. Church (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)
• Minerals and Cut Stones: Reference Book Containing Condensed and Simplified Descriptions From Standard Works on Mineralogy (1923), ed. by Mengo L. Morgenthau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare and Precious Stones (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1916), by George Frederick Kunz (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• British and Exotic Mineralogy (interactive combined edition of British Mineralogy and Exotic Mineralogy, originally published 1802-1817), by James Sowerby, ed. by Nicholas Rougeux (Javascript-dependent illustrated HTML at c82.net)
• Lithotherapie : Historische syudien über die medizinische verwendung der edelsteine ; Erweiterter abdruck der gleichnamigen inaugural -- dissertation. ([s.n.], 1902), by Hermann Fühner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le parfaict ioaillier (I. A. Hvgvetan, 1644), by Anselmus de Boodt, Jean Bachou, and Adrianus Tolius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diamonds and precious stones, a popular account of gems ... (Scribner, Armstrong, and company, 1874), by Louis Dieulafait and Fanchon Sanford (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on gems : in reference to their practical and scientific value ... (A. Hanford, 1838), by Lewis Feuchtwanger (page images at HathiTrust)
• The uranium and fluorescent minerals : a handbook for the collector of fluorescent gems and minerals : a guide for uranium prospecting (Mineralogist Publishing Co., 1953), by H. C. Dake (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• Handbook of fluorescent gems and minerals; an exposition and catalog of the fluorescent and phosphorescent gems and minerals, including the uses of ultra-violet light in the earth sciences (Mineralogist Pub. Co., 1949), by Jack De Ment (page images at HathiTrust)
• An encyclopedia of gems (Gemological institute of America, 1944), by Henry E. Briggs and Gemological Institute of America (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diamonds and precious stones: their history, value, and distinguishing characteristics. (J. C. Hotten, 1865), by Harry Emanuel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Schmucksteine und die Schmuckstein-Industrie (B. G. Teubner, 1912), by Alfred Eppler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die schmuck- und edelsteine (F. Krais, 1912), by Alfred Eppler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les pierres précieuses, propriétés caractéristiques et procédés de détermination. (H. Dunod et E. Pinat, 1914), by Jean Georges Escard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gems and gem minerals (A. W. Mumford, 1903), by Oliver C. Farrington (page images at HathiTrust)
• The natural history of gems or decorative stones. (Bell & Daldy; [etc., etc.], 1867), by C. W. King (page images at HathiTrust)
• The magic and science of jewels and stones (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922), by Isidore Kozminsky (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. (Scientific Pub. Co., 1890), by George Frederick Kunz (page images at HathiTrust)
• A text-book of precious stones for jewelers and the gem-loving public (Putnam, 1918), by Frank B. Wade (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of precious stones; the identification of gems and gem minerals, and an account of their scientific, commercial, artistic, and historical aspects (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1909), by Julius Wodiska (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gem-hunters (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1924), by Francis Rolt-Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Precious stones (A. Constable and co. ltd., 1908), by Wilbert Goodchild and Robert Dykes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Diamant et pierres précieuses; cristallographie, descriptions, emplois, évaluation, commerce. Bijoux, joyaux, orfévreries au point de vue de leur histoire et de leur travail. Ouvrage orné de 350 vignettes et d'une planche en couleur. (J. Rothschild, 1881), by Éd. Jannettaz, Émile Vanderheym, Amédée Guillaume Auguste Coutance, and Eugéne Fontenay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gems; their sources, descriptions, and identifications. (Butterworths, 1962), by Robert Webster (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on diamonds and precious stones, including their history--natural and commercial. To which is added, some account of the best methods of cutting and polishing them. (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813), by John Mawe (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on diamonds and precious stones; including their history--natural and commercial; to which are added the best methods of cutting and polishing them. (Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815), by John Mawe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Precious stones in old English literature. (A. Deichert nachf. (G. Böhme), 1909), by Robert Max Garrett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook and descriptive catalogue of the collections of gems and precious stones in the United States National museum (Govt. Print. Off., 1922), by United States National Museum, Edgar Theodore Wherry, Margaret W. Moodey, and George P. Merrill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Natal stones; sentiments and superstitions connected with precious stones: (Tiffany & co., 1802), by George Frederick Kunz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Natal stones; sentiments and superstitions associated with precious stones (Tiffany & co., 1908), by George Frederick Kunz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Natal stones; sentiments and superstitions associated with precious stones (Tiffany & co., 1909), by George Frederick Kunz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Natal stones; sentiments and superstitions associated with precious stones (Tiffany & co., 1909), by George Frederick Kunz (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 (G. Schwetschke'scher verlag, 1856), by Johann Heinrich Krause (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pierres précieuses et pierres d'ornementation; caractères, gisements, usages (P. Lechevalier, 1928), by E. Aubert de La Rüe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Edelsteinkunde, Eine allgemein verständliche darstellung der eigenschaften, des vorkommens und der verwendung der edelsteine, nebst einer anleitung zur bestimmung derselben für mineralogen, steinschleifer, juweliere, etc. (C. H. Tauchnitz, 1896), by Max Bauer (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 (Druck und verlag Herm. Schlag. nachf. (inh.: C. Hentze), 1907), by J. Reinhard Blum and Wilhelm Rau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Precious stones; a book of reference for jewellers (J. B. Lippincott Company, 1903), by Wallis Richard Cattelle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Precious stones considered in their scientific and artistic relations. A guide to the Townshend collection. (Pub. under authority of the Board of education, 1924), by A. H. Church, Chauncy Hare Townshend, and Victoria and Albert Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grundriss der edelsteinkunde. Ein allgemeinverständlicher leitfaden zur bestimmung und unterscheidung roher und geschliffener edelsteine (W. Engelmann, 1887), by P. Groth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The natural history of precious stones and of the precious metals (Bell & Daldy, 1870), by C. W. King (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mineral industry of the British empire and foreign countries. Gemstones ... (H. M. Stationery off., 1933), by Commonwealth Institute (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to the collection of gemstones in the Museum of practical geology. (Printed for H. M. Stationery off., by Darling & son, 1912), by Museum of Practical Geology (Great Britain) and W. F. P. McLintock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The chemistry, properties and tests of precious stones (E. & F. N. Spon, ltd., 1911), by John Mastin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edelsteinkunde für mineralogen, juweliere und steinhändler; praktisches lehr- und hilfsbuch zur untersuchung und bestimmung von edel- und schmucksteinen (H. Schlag nachf., 1923), by Wilhelm Rau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gem-stones and their distinctive characters (Methuen & co. ltd., 1913), by George Frederick Herbert Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Precious stones and gems, their history, sources and characteristics. (G. Bell & sons, 1898), by Edwin W. Streeter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die edelsteine und ihre bearbeitung für uhrenmacherei, bijouterie und industrie (E. Magron, 1923), by L. Trincano and Robert Schaad (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Physical gemmology. (Pitman, 1952), by James Sir 1881- Walton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die gesteinsbildenden Mineralien. (Herdersche Verlagshandlund, 1901), by Ernst Weinschenk (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Caspari Bauhini Basileens archiatri & praxeos profess, ordinar. de lapidis bezaaris oriental. & occident. cervin. & germanici; ortu natura differentiis veroque usu ex veterum & recentiorum placitis. (sumptibus Ludovici Regis, 1625), by Caspar Bauhin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Samot︠s︡vety Rossii. Tom 1 (Izdanie zhurnala "Priroda", 1921), by A. E. Fersman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emeralds (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Mines, 1931), by Irene Aitkens (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gem-cutter's craft (Bell, 1906), by Leopold Claremont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Estudio de las piedras preciosas, su historia y caractéres en bruto y labradas con la descripción de las joyas más notables de la corona de España y del monasterio del Escorial (Imprenta á cargo de C. Moro, 1870), by José Ignacio Miró (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tourmaline (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Mines, 1931), by Irene Aitkens and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbuch der edelsteinkunde für mineralogen, steinschneider und juweliere (F. A. Brockhaus, 1860), by Karl Emil Kluge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die gesteinsbildenden Mineralien. (Herder, 1915), by Ernst Weinschenk (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Manual of precious stones and antique gems (Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1874), by Hodder M. Westropp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edelsteinkunde für Mineralogen, Juweliere und Steinhändler. Praktisches Lehr- und Hilfsbuch zur Kenntnis, Untersuchung und Bestimmung von Edelsteinen nach einem älteren Werke des Prof. Dr. Reinhard Blum auf Grund des heutigen Standes der Mineralogie neu bearbeitet von Wilhelm Rau, ... Mit 4 bunten Tafeln und 58 Text-Illustrationen. (H. Schlag Nachf. (Inh. C. Hentze), 1907), by Wilhelm Rau and J. Reinhard Blum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die indischen mineralien, ihre namen und die ihnen zuge-schriebenen kräfte. Narahari's Râǵanighantu, varga XIII. (Verlag von S. Hirzel, 1882), by fl. 1235-1250 Naraharipaṇḍita and Richard Garbe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Precious stones considered in their scientific and artistic relations. With a catalogue of the Townshend collection. (H.M. Stationery off., by Wyman & sons, ltd., 1905), by A. H. Church, Chauncey Hare Townshend, and Victoria and Albert Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edelsteinkunde; bestimmung und unterscheidung der edelsteine und schmucksteine. Die künstliche darstellung der edelsteine. (Veit, 1893), by Cornelio August Doelter y Cisterich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trattato dei caratteri fisici delle pietre preziose per determinarle quando sieno lavorate (Per Giovanni Pirotta, 1819), by René Just Haüy and Luigi Configliachi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les pierres précieuses et les principaux ornements (F. Didot frères, fils et cie, 1870), by J. Rambosson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bergbau einschliesslich steinbruchbetrieb und edelsteingewinnung. Geschichte des bergbaues, vorkormmen und abbau der nutzbaren mineralien in den wichtigsten bergbaubezirken aller länder ... (Spamer, 1900), by Emil Treptow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gem-stones and their distinctive characters (Methuen & co. ltd., 1912), by George Frederick Herbert Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Taschenbuch der Edelsteinkunde für Mineralogen, Techniker und Juweliere (C. Wilfferodt, 1887), by J. Reinhard Blum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité complet des pierres précieuses contenant leur etude chimique et minéralogique, les moyens de les reconnaître sûrement leur valeur approximative et raisonee, leur emploi, la description des plus extraordinaires et des chefs-d'oeuvre anciens et modernes auxquels elles ont concouru. (Lacroix et Baudry, 1858), by Charles Barbot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legends of gems; the strange beliefs which the astrological birthstones have collected through the ages (Graphic press, 1937), by Horace L. Thomson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Precious stones in nature, art, and literature (B. Whidden, 1886), by S. M. Burnham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Precious stones (Van Nostrand, 1908), by Wilbert Goodchild and Robert Dykes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amazon stone (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Mines, 1931), by Irene Aitkens and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rubies and sapphires (Dept. of Commerce, United States Bureau of Mines, 1931), by Irene Aitkens and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le lapidaire du quatorzième siècle. Description des pierres précieuses et de leurs vertus magiques (Impr. impériale et royale de la cour et de l'état, et de l'état, 1862), by John Mandeville and Isaac del Sotto (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diamonds and precious stones: their history, value, and distinguishing characteristics. (J. C. Hotten, 1867), by Harry Emanuel (page images at HathiTrust)
• A hand-book of precious stones. (New York, 1901), by Meyer D. Rothschild (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die edlen Metalle und Schmucksteine; der, Die Gold- und Silberarbeiter-, Scheide- und Probirkunst Decimal- und Vermischungsrechnung, Munz- und Edelsteinkunde ... Ein praktisches Handbuch für Juweliere, Gold- und Silberarbeiter, sowie für alle, welche sich über gehalt und werth des gold und silbers, der edelsteine und münzen unterrichten wollen (Breslau, Tragmann, 1859), by A. Rudolph (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur Gemmenkunde : antike geschnittene Steine vom Grabmahl der Heiligen Elisabeth in der nach ihr genannten Kirche zu Marburg in Kur-Hessen (Druck und Verlag von Carl Wilhelm Leske, 1834), by Georg Friedrich Creuzer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Description d'une améthyste du cabinet des pierres gravées de sa Majesté l'Empereur de toutes les Russies. ("De l'imprimerie Imperiale,", 1798), by Heinrich Karl Ernst von Köhler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hausindustrie im gebiete der schmuck- und ziersteinverarbeitung, die Idar-Obersteiner industrie; im anschluss an die veröffentlichungen des Vereins für sozialpolitik ... (Grub, 1894), by L. Th Hisserich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tables for the determination of gems and precious or ornamental stones without injury to the specimen. ([New York], 1915), by Alfred J. Moses (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fresh-water pearls and pearl fisheries of the United States (G.P.O., 1898), by George Frederick Kunz and United States Fish Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das steinbuch. Ein altdeutsches gedicht (Verlag von G. Henninger, 1877), by 13th cent Volmar, von Mügeln Heinrich, St. Florianus, and Hans Lambel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mani-málá; or, A treatise on gems. (Calcutta, 1879), by Sourindro Mohun Tagore (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 (Printed for Smith Patterson company by Atlantic Printing Co., 1913), by Marcell N. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beach rambles in search of seaside pebbles and crystals; with some observations on the origin of the diamond and other precious stones. (Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1859), by John George Francis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Taschenbuch der Edelsteinkunde für Mineralogen, Techniker, Künstler und Liebhaber der Edelsteine (Julius Weise, 1834), by J. Reinhard Blum (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on gems : in reference to their practical and scientific value ... (A. Hanford, 1838), by Lewis Feuchtwanger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mittheilung mannichfaltiger versuche und erfahrungen : edelsteine kunstgemass zu schleifen und sie in glasflussen tauschend annlich nachzubilden ... (Verlag, druck und lithographie von B. F. Voigt, 1841), by L. von Konneritz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gems, jewelers' materials, and ornamental stones of California (W. W. Shannon, Superintendent State Printing, 1905), by George Frederick Kunz (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'art du lapidaire (Garnier, libraire, 1830), by Honoré Lançon (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of precious stones : the identification of gems and gem minerals, and an account of their scientific, commercial, artistic, and historical aspects (G. P. Putnam, 1909), by Julius Wodiska (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Diamond fields of South Africa; with notes of journey there and homeward, and some things about diamonds and other jewels. (American News Company, 1872), by K. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ein spanisches steinbuch, mit einleitung und anmerkungen zum erstenmal (Gebr. Henninger, 1880), by Bishop of Rennes Marbode (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gems (Alfred H. Smith & Co., 1881), by Alfred H. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gems and precious stones of North America. (The Scientific publishing company, 1892), by George Frederick Kunz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimen Arabicum continens descriptionem et excerpta libri Achmedis Teifaschii de gemmis et lapidibus pretiosis (Ap. Abrahamum à Paddenburg, 1784), by Sebald Fulco Johannes Rau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edelsteinkunde, eine allgemein verständliche Darstellung der Eigenschaften, des Vorkommens und der Verwendung der edelsteine, nebst einer Anleitung zur Bestimmung derselben, für mineralogen, edelsteinliebhaber, steinschleifer, juweliere (C. H. Tauchnitz, 1909), by Max Bauer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gem-stones and their distinctive characters (Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1923), by George Frederick Herbert Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook of gem identification. (Gemological Institue of America, 1962), by Richard T. Liddicoat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pearls ; their occurrence in the United States, etc. (Washington, 1900), by George Frederick Kunz (page images at HathiTrust)
• What's what? at home and abroad (The Bradley-White Co., 1902), by F. Sturges Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Whittier's [description of precious stones. (Providence, R.I., 1886), by Henry C. Whittier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leisure hours among the gems (J.R. Osgood and Company, 1884), by Augustus C. Hamlin (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. (J. Penington & son, 1856), by Joseph R. Paxton and John Penington & Son (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on diamonds, and precious stones: including their history-natural and commercial. (Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823), by John Mawe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare and precious stones, treating of the known references of precious stones in Shakespeare's works (Imprinted by J. B. Lippincott company, 1916), by George Frederick Kunz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gem identification (Gemological Institute of America, 1957), by Richard T. Liddicoat (page images at HathiTrust)
• De omni rerum fosilium genere, gemmis, lapidibus, metallis, et huiusmodi, libri aliquot plerique nunc primum editi (Excudebat Iacobus Gesnerus, 1565), by Hans Jakob Gessner, Andreas Gessner, Francisco Rueo, Severin Goebel, Conrad Gessner, Georg Fabricius, Johannes Kentmann, Saint Epiphanius, Valerius Cordus, and Georg Agricola (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diamants et pierres précieuses (Librairie Hachette, 1874), by Louis Dieulafait (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diamants et pierres précieuses (Hachette et cie, 1887), by Louis Dieulafait (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glaube und Aberglaube im Steinreich. (Weiffenbach, 1912), by Anton Max Pachinger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gesammlete und eigene beyträge zu seiner Abhandlung von edelsteinen. (In der Waisenhaus-buchhandlung, 1778), by Urban Friedrich Benedict Brückmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• A hand-book of precious stones (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1890), by Meyer D. Rothschild (page images at HathiTrust)
• Papyrus graecus holmiensis (P. holm.); recepte für silber, steine und purpur (A.-B. akademiska bokhandeln; [etc., etc., 1913), by Otto Lagercrantz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbuch der Edelsteinkunde. (Druck und Verlag von C. Gerold's Sohn, 1869), by Albrecht Schrauf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les pierres, esquisses minéralogiques (L. Hachette et cie, 1869), by Louis Simonin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on gems, in reference to their practical and scientific value. (Printed by A. Hanford, 1838), by Lewis Feuchtwanger (page images at HathiTrust)
• American gems and precious stones (Govt. print. off., 1856), by George Frederick Kunz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Skizzen aus dem steinreiche (Verlag von Christian Kaiser, 1850), by Franz von Kobell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dragot︠s︡ennye kamni, ikh svoĭstva, mestonakhozhdenii︠a︡ i upotreblenie (Izdanie A.S. Suvorina, 1896), by M. I. Pyli︠a︡ev (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die gesteinsbildenden mineralien. (Herdersche Verlagshandlung, 1907), by Ernst Weinschenk (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kulturhistoriske studier over ædelstene med særligt henblik paa det 17. aarhundrede. (Gyldendal, Nordisk forlag, 1915), by Axel Garboe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diamonds, pearls and precious stones (Printed for Smith Patterson company by Atlantic printing company, 1914), by Marcell Nelson Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité des caractères physiques des pierres précieuses : pour servir a leur détermination lorsqu'elles ont été taillées (Courcier, 1817), by René Just Haüy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les pierres précieuses et les principaux ornements. (Firmin-Didot, 1884), by J. Rambosson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A popular treatise on gems : in reference to their scientific value : a guide for the teacher of natural sciences, the jeweller, and amateur : together with a description of the elements of mineralogy, and all ornamental and architectural materials (Feuchtwanger, 1872), by Lewis Feuchtwanger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diamants et pierres précieuses (Hachette et cie, 1871), by Louis Dieulafait (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edelsteinkunde. (C. H. Tauchnitz, 1909), by Max Bauer (page images at HathiTrust)
• A hand-book of precious stones (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1889), by M. D. Rothschild (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die farben der mineralien, insbesondere der edelsteine. (F. Vieweg & sohn, 1915), by Cornelio August Doelter y Cisterich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hōyō shō. (s.n., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The natural history of precious stones and of the precious metals (Bell & Daldy, 1867), by C. W. King (page images at HathiTrust)
• Saggio di archeologia ed araldica biblica : ossia, Studii biblico-critici comparativi sui capi delle dodici tribù d'Israele e gli apostoli di Gesù Cristo. (Tipografia G. Tedeschi, 1882), by Camillo Angelo Decca (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionnaire étymologique des termes d'architecture, et autres termes qui y ont rapport. Suivi de l'explication des pierres précieuses, & leurs étymologies. (Veuve Pissot, 1753), by Denis François Gastellier de la Tour (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les pierres précieuses, propriétes caractéristiques et procédés de determination. Diamant, gemmes quartzeuses, silicatées alumineuses. Perles. Corail. Gisements gemmifères: distribution géographique, exploitation, production. Travail des gemmes. Utilisation dans les arts industriels. Production artificielle. Imitations. Lois et règlements. (H. Dunod et E. Pinat, 1914), by Jean Georges Escard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of glass : shewing how to make all sorts of glass, crystal and enamel : likewise the making of pearls, precious stones, china and looking-glass ; to which is added, The method of painting on glass and enameling : also how to extract the colours from minerals, metals, herbs and flowers : a work containing many secrets and curiosities never before discovered : ilustrated with proper sculptures (Printed for Dan. Brown, 1900), by Jean Haudicquer de Blancourt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fior di pensieri sulle Pietre Preziose (Bologna, 1906), by Ahmed Teifascite and Antonio Raineri Biscia (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)
• Guide pratique du joaillier, ou, Traité complet des pierres précieuses : leur étude chimique et minéralogique, les moyens de les reconnaitre sûrement, leur valeur approximative et raisonnée, leur emploi, la description des plus extraordinaires et les chefs-d'oeuvre anciens et mondernes auzquels elles ont concouru (Lacroix, 1860), by Charles Barbot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gold regions of Canada gold, how and where to find it! : explorer's guide and manual of practical and instructive directions for explorers and miners in the gold regions of Canada, with lucid instructions and explanations as to the rocky strata, peculiar shale rocks, veinstone, etc., in which gold, and many other minerals, are to be found in that region : with easy modes of determination and analysis, accompanied by two colored maps (Maclear, 1867), by Henry White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire naturelle des minéraux contenant leur description, celle de leur gîte, la théorie de leur formation, leurs rapports avec la géologie, ou histoire de la terre, le détail de leurs propriétés et de leurs usages, leur analyse chimique, &c. : avec figures dessinées d'après nature (De l'imprimerie de Crapelet :, 1801), by Eugène-Melchior-Louis Patrin (page images at HathiTrust)
• On an undescribed variety of amethyst (s.n., 1880), by Professor Duns and Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Precious stones : for curative wear : and other remedial uses : likewise the nobler metals (J. Wright & co. [etc.], 1907), by William Thomas Fernie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gems, jewelers' materials, and ornamental stones of California. (State Printer, 1905), by George Frederick Kunz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité des pierres précieuses, des porphyes, granits, marbres, albatres, et autre roches propres a recevoir le poli et orner les monuments publics et edifices particuliers ... (F. Schoell, 1908), by C. P. Brard (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 (Printed for Smith Patterson company by Griffith-Stillings press, 1913), by Marcell N. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Precious stones considered in their scietific and artistic relations. With a catalogue of the Townshend collection of gems in the South Kensington museum. (Chapman and Hall, limited, 1883), by A. H. Church, Chaucey Hare Townshend, Chauncy Hare Townshend, and Victoria and Albert Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diamonds and precious stones; a popular account of gems ... (Scribner, Armstrong, and Co., 1876), by Louis Dieulafait (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Perle: L'or et les Pierres precieuses dans le luxe. preface de M. Levasseur. (Augustin Challamel, editeur, 1910) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theophrastus's history of stones. (Printed for the author, 1774), by Theophrastus and John Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Mineralreich (Verlag von J. Neumann, 1896), by Georg Julius Ernst Gürich (page images at HathiTrust)
• A lapidary, or, The history of pretious stones : with cautions for the undeceiving of those that deal with. ([s.n.], 1652), by Thomas Nicols (page images at HathiTrust)
• Precious stones and gems, their history, sources and characteristics (G. Bell & Sons, 1892), by Edwin W. Streeter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gold, silber und edelsteine : handbuch für gold-, silber-, bronze-arbeiter und juweliere : vollständige anleitung zur technischen bearbeitung der edelmetalle : enthaltend das legiren, giessen, bearbeiten, emailliren, färben und oxydiren, das vergolden, das incrustiren und schmücken der gold- und silber-waaren mit edelsteinen und die fabrikation des imitationsschmuckes (A. Hartleben's Verlag, 1895), by Alexander Wagner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The natural history of gems, or semi-precious stones. ([publisher not identified], 1870), by C. W. King (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legends of gems (R.H. Russell & son, 1895), by Frank Shelley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Geheimnis der Edelsteine (Verlag von Schmitz & Olbertz, 1922), by Kurt Kamlah (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• General regulations established by the Supreme Grand Chapter for the government of the Order of Royal Arch Masons of England. (Harrison & Sons, Printers, 1879), by Freemasons. England. Royal Arch Masons. Grand Chapter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beiträge zur kenntnis de mineralfarben. (Kiel, 1908), by Johann Heinrich Karl Simon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook for the amateur lapidary (J. H. Howard, 1935), by James Harry Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Urban Friederich Benedict Brückmanns Abhandlung von Edelsteinen. 2. verb. und verm. Aufl. (Im Verlag der Fürstl. Waysenhaus-Buchlandlung[!], 1773), by Urban Friedrich Benedict Brückmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beach rambles in search of seaside pebbles and crystals : with some observations on the origin of the diamond and other precious stones (London ; New York : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1861, 1861), by John George Francis, W. S. Coleman, and Warne Routledge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gems and jewels : their history, geography, chemistry and ana. : from the earliest ages down to the present time (Richard Bentley, 1860), by A. de Barrera (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kulturhistoriske studier over aedelstene med saerligt henblik paa det 17. aarhundrede. (Fordisk forlag, 1915), by Axel Garboe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gems; how to know and cut them. ([Printed by California graphic press], 1934), by Horace L. Thomson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Inclusions as a means of gemstone identification; with 258 illus. (Gemological Institute of America, 1953), by Eduard Josef Gübelin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lehrbuch der Steinschneidekunst : für Steinschneider, Graveurs, Steinmetzen, Bildhauer, Architekten, Mineralogen und jeden, welcher sich über die Veredlung der Steine zu unterrichten wünscht (Bei Karl Thienemann, 1820), by Jakob Frischholz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to the collection of gemstones in the Museum of practical geology. (Printed under the authority of H. M. Stationery off., 1923), by Museum of Practical Geology (Great Britain) and W. F. P. McLintock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Herbert Smith Refractometer, and its use : particularly for the discrimination of faceted gem-stones (J.H. Steward, 1907), by George Frederick Herbert Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The natural history, ancient and modern, of precious stones and gems, and of the precious metals (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, by Marcell N. Smith; with sixteen illustrations. (Printed for Smith Patterson Company by Atlantic Printing Company, 1914), by Marcell N. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Precious stones and gems : their history and distinguishing characteristics (Estes and Lauriat, 1887), by Edwin W. Streeter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Precious stones considered in their scientific and artistic relations : with a catalogue of the Townshend collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum (Chapman and Hall, 1901), by A. H. Church (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Introductory gemology, a study of the identification of gemstones, pearls, and ornamental minerals (Gemological institute of America, 1945), by Robert Webster and Virginia V. Hinton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The decades of the newe worlde or West India, : Conteynyng the nauigations and conquestes of the Spanyardes, with the particular description of the moste ryche and large landes and Ilandes lately founde in the west Ocean, perteynyng to the inheritaunce of the kinges of Spayne. : In the which the diligent reader may not only consyder what commoditie may hereby chaunce to the hole christian world in tyme to come, but also learne many secreates touchynge the lande, the sea, and the starres, very necessarie to be know[n]e to al such as shal attempte any nauigations, or otherwise haue delite to beholde the strange and woonderful woorkes of God and nature. (In aedibus Guilhelmi Powell., 1555), by Pietro Martire d' Anghiera, William L. Clements, Grenville Kane, William Powell, Francisco López de Gómara, Antonio Pigafetta, Gonzalo Fernádez de Oviedo y Valdé, Pope Alexander VI, and Richard Eden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gem minerals and synthetic gems (Freeman, 1962), by James C. Brice (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Natal stones; birth stones, sentiments and superstitions associated with precious stones. (Tiffany & co., 1920), by George Frederick Kunz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Descrition of the corundum stone. (W. Bulmer and co., 1802), by Jacques Louis Bournon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Revised lapidary handbook (J. H. Howard, 1946), by James Harry Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Precious stones, a popular account of their characters, occurrence and applications, with an introduction to their determination, for mineralogists, lapidaries, jewellers, etc. With an appendix on pearls and coral (C. Griffin and Company, Ltd., 1904), by Max Bauer and Leonard James Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diamant et pierres précieuses: (J. Rothschild, éditeur, 1881), by Éd. Jannettaz, Émile Vanderheym, Amédée Guillaume Auguste Coutance, and Eugène Fontenay (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)
• Traité des pierres de Théophraste, traduit du Grec (A Paris : Chez Jean-Thomas Herissant, Libraire, M.DCC.LIV [1754], 1754), by Theophrastus, Martin Folkes, James Parsons, and John Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gemology, the science of gem stones. (Los Angeles, Calif. : Gemological institute of America, [1936-], 1936), by Robert M. Shipley and Gemological Institute of America (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Northwest gem trails; a field guide for the gem hunter, the mineral collector and the tourist. Includes Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. (Mineralogist Pub. Co., 1950), by H. C. Dake (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)
• Gem-Stones and Their Distinctive Characters, by George Frederick Herbert Smith (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Hand-book of Precious Stones, by Meyer D. Rothschild (Gutenberg ebook)
• Beach Rambles in Search of Seaside Pebbles and Crystals: With Some Observations on the Origin of the Diamond and Other Precious Stones, by John George Francis (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public, by Frank Bertram Wade (Gutenberg ebook)
• De l'art de la verrerie. English (London : Printed for Dan. Brown ... Tho. Bennet ... D. Midwinter and Tho. Leigh ... and R. Wilkin ..., 1699), by Jean Haudicquer de Blancourt (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Histoire des joyaux et des principales richesses de l'Orient & de l'Occident. English (London : Printed by T.N. for Hobart Kemp ..., 1671), by Samuel Chappuzeau (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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