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

 Max Hermann Bauer; Leonard James Spencer

London: C. Griffin, 1904

1st ed.  Bound in contemporary 3/4 leather. Binding worn, rebacked.  xv. 627 pages.  Illustrated with 20 plates, many of which are chromolithographic with diagramatic tissue overlays; 94 figure drawings, tables and charts, maps and photographs within the text.  Internally generally good, but with institutional stamps throughout from the Peabody Institute.  One of the first modern encyclopedic treatments of gemology. Gives the locations and the scientific aspects of precious and semi-precious stones including pearls and coral, and with additional information on cutting and polishing of gemology. "One of the greatest gemological works ever published" -Sinkankas 470-71. Translation of: Edelsteinkunde.