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The natural history of the Bible ; or, A description of all the quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles, and insects, trees, plants, flowers, gums, and precious stones, mentioned in the sacred scriptures: Collected from the best authorities, and alphabetically arranged / by Thaddeus Mason Harris.
Harris, Thaddeus Mason, 1768-1842.Date: 1824- Books
Mother Seigel's home companion : household, toilet, & first aid hints - things a mother should know - the care of the sick - conundrums - popular superstitions, meaning of names, flowers, & precious stones, with much other interesting and useful information / A.J. White & Co. Ltd.
A.J. White, Ltd.Date: [1912?]- Books
Lapidario del rey D. Alfonso X : codice original.
Date: [1881]- Books
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The natural history of the Bible: or A description of all the beasts, birds, fishes, insects, reptiles, trees, plants, metals, precious stones, &c. mentioned in the Sacred Scriptures. Collected from the best authorities, and alphabetically arranged. By Thaddeus M. Harris A.M. librarian of Harvard University, Cambridge. [Three lines from I Kings] Published according to act of Congress.
Harris, Thaddeus Mason, 1768-1842.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Pictures
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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- Books
Ratnavijnāna / Rādhākṛṣṇa Pārāśara ; bhumikā-lekhaka, Priyavrata Śarmā.
Pārāśara, Rādhākr̥ṣṇa.Date: 1998- 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
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Peri Lithōn. De lapidibus, poema Orpheo a quibusdam adscriptum, græce et latine, ex editione Jo. Matthiæ Gesneri. Recensuit notasque adjecit Thomas Tyrwhitt. Simul prodit Auctarium dissertationis de Babrio.
Ibn Ḣawqal, active 943-977.Date: M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]- 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- 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
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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- Books
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Nature's cabinet unlock'd : wherein is discovered the natural causes of metals, stones, precious earths, juyces, humors, and spirits, the nature of plants in general, their affections, parts, and kinds in particular : together with a description of the individual parts and species of all animate bodies ... : with a compendious anatomy of the body of man, as also the manner of his formation in the womb / by Tho. Browne.
Date: 1657- Archives and manuscripts
Schwaertzer, Sebald ( -1598)
Schwaertzer, Sebald, d.1598Date: mid-18th centuryReference: MS.4467- Archives and manuscripts
Barone
Date: 1768Reference: MS.1068- Books
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The compleat chymical dispensatory, in five books : treating of all sorts of metals, precious stones, and minerals, of all vegetables and animals, and things that are taken from them, as musk, civet, #. How rightly to know them, and how they are to be used in physick; with their several doses ... Being very proper for all merchants, druggists, chirurgions, and apothecaries ... / Written in Latin, by Dr. John Schroder ... And Englished, by William Rowland.
Schröder, Johann, 1600-1664.Date: 1669- Books
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The Lord Marshal's order. In pursuance of an order of the Lords Justices in council, dated the 8th of September last past; these are to give notice to all the peers of Great Britain, who are to attend His Majesty in the royal proceeding to his coronation upon Wednesday the 20th day of this instant October, that they, and every of them, forbear to set or use and jewels, or precious stones, in their coronets. ...
Great Britain. Earl Marshal.Date: 1714- Books
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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. Also certain and insallible rules to know the good from the bad, how to prove their genuineness, and to distinguish the real from counterseits. Extracted from the works of Aristotle, Pliny, Isiodorus, Dionysius Alexandrinus, Albertus Magnus, &c. By Camillus Leonardus, M.D. a treatise of infinite use, not only to jewellers, lapidaries, and merchants who trade in them, but to the nobility and gentry, who purchase them either for curiosity, use, or ornament. Dedicated by the author to Cs̆ar Borgia. Now first translated into English.
Leonardi, Camillo, active 1502.Date: 1750- 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)