16 results filtered with: Precious stones
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Le parfaict ioaillier, ou, Histoire des pierreries : où sont amplement descrites leur naissance, iuste prix, moyen de les cognoistre, & se garder des contrefaites, facultez medecinales, & proprietez curieuses / composé par Anselme Boece de Boot, medecin de l'empereur Rodolphe II ; et de nouueau enrichi de belles annotations, indices & figures, par André Toll, doct. med. de Leide.
Boodt, Anselmus de, 1550-1632.Date: M. DC. XLIV. [1644]
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A diamond cutters' wheel in use (top), and a plan and perspective of the wheel with various components (below). Etching by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 35929i
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[Theophrastou peri tōn lithōn biblion] = Theophrastus's history of stones. With an English version, and notes ... Also, Observations on the new Swedish acid, and of the stone from which it is obtained; and with an idea of a natural and artificial method of fossils / By John Hill.
Theophrastus.Date: 1774- Books
Ratnavijnāna / Rādhākṛṣṇa Pārāśara ; bhumikā-lekhaka, Priyavrata Śarmā.
Pārāśara, Rādhākr̥ṣṇa.Date: 1998- Books
Gemmarum et lapidum historia / quam olim edidit Anselmus Boetius de Boot Brugensis. Nunc vero recensuit, à mendis repurgavit, commentariis et pluribus melioribusque figuris illustravit & multo locupletiore indice auxit Adrianus Toll.
Boodt, Anselmus de, 1550-1632.Date: 1636- Books
Lapidario del rey D. Alfonso X : codice original.
Date: [1881]- Books
Specimen de gemmarum origine & virtutibus. : In quo proponuntur & historicè illustrantur quaedam conjecturae circa consistentiam materiae lapidum pretiosorum, & subjecta, in quibus eorum praecipuae virtutes consistunt / ab honoratissimo Roberto Boyle.
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.Date: M. DC. LXXX. [1680]- Books
Culpeper's School of physick, or, the experimental practice of the whole art. Wherein are contain'd I. The English apothecary; ... II. Chymical and physical aphorisms ... III. The chyrurgion's guide: ... IV. The expert lapidary: ... V. Doctor Diet's directory: ... As also, The mystery of the skill of physick made easie. VI. Chymical institutions; ... / by Nicholas Culpeper, ... with an account of the author's life, and the testimony of his wife, Mrs. Culpeper, and others.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.Date: 1699
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A lapidary, sitting at his foot-operated grinding wheel (above), an elevation and plan of his worktable (below). Engraving by B. L. Prevost after J. N. F. Boucher.
Boucher, Juste-Nathan, 1736-1782.Reference: 40510i- Books
Albertus Magnus de secretis mulierum. Item de virtutibus herbarum lapidum et animalium.
Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280.Date: A[nn]o 1669
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An essay about the origine & virtues of gems. : Wherein are propos'd and historically illustrated some conjectures about the consistence of the matter of precious stones, and the subjects wherein their chiefest virtues reside. By the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq; Fellow of the Royal Society.
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.Date: 1672- Books
Le Mercure indien, ou le tresor des Indes. Première partie. D ans laquelle est traitté de l'or, de l'argent et du vif-argent ... Avec une explication sommaire des titres de l'or et de l'argent, et de leur affinage ... / par Pierre de Rosnel, orfévre ordinaire du Roy.
Rosnel, Pierre de.Date: 1668- Books
[Theophrastou tou Eresiou Peri tōn lithōn biblion]. Theophrastus's History of stones. With an English version, and critical and philosophical notes, including the modern history of the gems, &c, described by that author, and of many other of the native fossils / By John Hill. To which are added, two letters: one to Dr. James Parsons, F.R.S., on the colours of the sapphire and turquoise, and the other, to Martin Folkes ... upon the effects of different menstruums on copper.
Theophrastus.Date: 1746- Books
Caspari Bavhini Basil. De lapidis bezaar orientalis et occidentalis cervini item et germanici ortv, natvra, differentiis, veroqúe vsu. Ex veterum & recentiorum placitis liber hactenus non editus / [Caspar Bauhin].
Bauhin, Caspar, 1560-1624.Date: 1613- Books
De gemmis aliquot, iis praesertim quarum diuus Ioannes Apostolus in sua Apocalypsi meminit. De aliis quoque quarum usus hoc aeui apud omnes percrebuit. Libri duo Theologis non minus utiles quàm philosophis, omnino felicioribus ingeniis periucundi è non vulgaribus utriusque philosophiæ adytis deprompti / autore Francisco Rueo.
La Rue, François, approximately 1520-1585.Date: 1547
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Wahre Handgriffe : das subtile und flüchtige Gold, so in den Kieselsteinen, Sand, rothen und schwarzen Talksteinen, fettigen Erden und andern metallischen Steinen enthalten, leicht und mit herauszuziehen : sammt der kostbaren Gold-Tinctur / Deutlich beschrieben und wortgetreu nach einer alten Handschrift für Freunde dieser Wissenschaft als Manuscript gedruckt.
Date: [cir1855?]