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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
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]- 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
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A treatise on diamonds and pearls. In which their importance is considered: and plain rules are exhibited for ascertaining the value of both: and the true method of manufacturing diamonds. By David Jeffries, jeweller.
Jeffries, David.Date: [1751]- Books
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L'art de faire les cristaux colorés imitans les pierres précieuses / par M. Fontanieu.
Fontanieu, M. de (Pierre-Élisabeth), 1730-1784.Date: 1778- Archives and manuscripts
Schwaertzer, Sebald ( -1598)
Schwaertzer, Sebald, d.1598Date: mid-18th centuryReference: MS.4467- Archives and manuscripts
Barone
Date: 1768Reference: MS.1068- Books
Antonii Neri Florentini, De arte vitraria libri septem / et eosdem Christophori Merretti observationes et notae. In quibus omne gemmarum artificialium, encaustorum et laccarum artificium explicatur.
Neri, Antonio, 1576-1614.Date: 1686- Books
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Art de la verrerie / de Neri, Merret et Kunckel. Auquel on a ajouté le Sol sine veste d'Orschall; l'Helioscopium videndi sine veste solem chymicum; le Sol non sine veste [by Christophe Grummet or Brummet]; le chapitre XI du Flora Saturnizans de Henckel, sur la vitrification des végétaux; un mémoire sur la manière de faire le saffre [by C.F. Zimmermann]; le secret des vraies porcelaines de la Chine et de Saxe. Ouvrages ou l'on trouvera la maniere de faire le verre et le crystal, etc. Traduits de l'allemand, par M. D * * * [i.e. P.H.D. von Holbach].
Neri, Antonio, 1576-1614.Date: 1752- Books
Sieben Bücher: handlend von der künstlichen Glass- und Crystallen-Arbeit, oder Glassmacher -Kunst, und alle demjenigen, was dazu gehöret. Sambt denen, darüber von Christoph Merret ... gefertigten aussbündigen Anmerckungen ... / Verdeutscht durch Friedrich Geisslern.
Neri, Antonio, 1576-1614.Date: 1678- Archives and manuscripts
Notes on chemistry
Poisson, Albert, 1868-1894Date: 1887-1891Reference: MS.3933Part of: Poisson, Albert (1868-1894)- 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
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A treatise on diamonds and pearls. In which their importance is considered; and plain rules are exhibited for ascertaining the value of both; And The True Method Of Manufacturing Diamonds. By David Jeffries, Jeweller.
Jeffries, David.Date: MDCCC. [1800]- Books
L'arte vetraria distinta in libri sette / Del R.P. Antonio Neri fiorentino ; ne' quali si scoprino marauigliosi effetti, e s'insegnano segreti bellissimi del vetro nel fuoco, & altre cose curiose.
Neri, Antonio, 1576-1614.Date: 1663- Books
The art of glass, wherein are shown the wayes to make and colour glass, pastes, enamels, lakes, and other curiosities / Written in Italian translated into English, with some observations on the author [by C. M., i.e. Christopher Merret] Whereunto is added an account [by Sir Robert Moray] of the glass drops, made by the Royal Society meeting at Gresham College.
Neri, Antonio, 1576-1614.Date: 1662- Archives and manuscripts
Essays
Poisson, Albert, 1868-1894Date: 1887Reference: MS.3931Part of: Poisson, Albert (1868-1894)- Books
Johannis Kunckelii, Churfürstl. Brandenb. würcklich bestallt-geheimden Cammer-Dieners, Ars vitraria experimentalis, oder vollkommene Glasmacher-Kunst, lehrende, als in einem aus unbetrüglicher Erfahrung, herfliessendem Commentario, über die von dergleichen Arbeit beschriebenen sieben Bücher P. Antonii Neri ... und denen darüber gethanen gelehrten Anmerckungen Christophori Merretti ... (so aus den Ital[ienischen] und Latein[ischen] beyde ... ins Hochteutsche übersetzt). Die allerkurtz-bündigsten Manieren, das reineste Chrystall-Glas ... zu machen ... Samt einem II. Haupt-Theil. So in drey unterschiedenen Büchern, und mehr als 200. Experimenten bestehet, darinnen von Glasmahlen, en vergulden und brennen ... : mit einem Anhange von denen Perlen und fast allen natürlichen Edelsteinen ... / [Antonio Neri].
Neri, Antonio, 1576-1614.Date: 1689- Books
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Des pierres précieuses et des pierres fines, avec les moyens de les connoı̂tre & de les évaluer. Par M. Dutens, ...
Dutens, L. (Louis), 1730-1812.Date: 1777- 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
Gem therapy / Benoytosh Bhattacharyya.
Bhattacharyya, Benoytosh, 1897-1964.Date: 1971- Archives and manuscripts
Gaudin, Marc Antoine Augustin (1804-1880) (& others)
Gaudin, Marc Antoine Augustin, 1804-1880Date: mid-19th centuryReference: MS.2486- Pictures
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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
Quilatador de oro, plata, y piedras / Compuesto por Juan de Arphe y Villafañe, natural de León, escultor de oro y plata, en las Casas Reales de la Moneda de Segovia ; dedicado a Don Pedro de Pomar.
Arfe y Villafañe, Juan de, 1847-1922.Date: 1678- Books
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An abstract of the treatise on diamonds and pearls: BY Which Its Usefulness to all who are any Ways interested in those Jewels, will sufficiently appear; and therefore addressed to the Nobility and Gentry of this Kingdom, and to the Traders in Jewels, and Manufacturers of Diamonds. To which is added, a particular account of the French King's large brilliant diamond, Together With some Remarks upon it; and a copper plate, containing two draughts of its shape, Expansion and Depth, when rough, and wrought; and another relative to the former. By the author of that treatise.
Jeffries, David.Date: M.DCC.LIII. [1753]- Books
Marbode of Rennes' De lapidibus : considered as a medical treatise with text, commentary, and C.W. King's translation, together with text and translation of Marbode's minor works on stones / by John M. Riddle.
Marbode, Bishop of Rennes, 1035?-1123.Date: 1977