The curious lore of precious stones : being a description of their sentiments and folk lore, superstitions, symbolism, mysticism, use in medicine, protection, prevention, religion, and divination, crystal gazing, birthstones, lucky stones and talismans, astral, zodiacal and planetary / by George Frederick Kunz, with 86 illustrations in color, doubletone and line.

  • Kunz, George Frederick, 1856-1932.
Date:
1913
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Credit: The curious lore of precious stones : being a description of their sentiments and folk lore, superstitions, symbolism, mysticism, use in medicine, protection, prevention, religion, and divination, crystal gazing, birthstones, lucky stones and talismans, astral, zodiacal and planetary / by George Frederick Kunz, with 86 illustrations in color, doubletone and line. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    edition, entitled: “Natal Stones, Sentiments and Super- stitions Associated with Precious Stones,” compiled by the writer, who has examined nearly all the principal col- lections in the United States, Europe, Mexico, Canada, and Asiatic Russia. For courtesies, information and illustrations, I am in- debted to the following, to whom my thanks are due: Prof. Taw Sein Ko, Superintendent of the Archaeo- logical Survey, of Burma; Dr. T. Wada, of Tokyo, Japan; Dr. Gr. 0. Clerc, President of the Societe Ouralienne des Amis des Sciences Naturelles, Ekaterinebourg, Russia; Dr. Charles Braddock, late Medical Inspector to the King of Siam; Sir Charles Hercules Re^d, Curator of Archae- ology, and Dr. Ernest A. Wallis Budge, Egyptologist, British Museum, London; A. W. Feavearyear, Esq., Lon- don ; Dr. Salomon Reinach, Director of the Archaeological Museum of St. Germain-en-Laye, France; Prof. Giuseppe Belucci, of the University of Perugia; Dr. Peter Jessen, Librarian of the Kunstgewerbe Museum, of Berlin; Miss Belle DaCosta Green; Dr. Frederick Hirth, Chinese Pro- fessor, Columbia University, New York; Dr. Clark Wissler, Curator of Archaeology, Dr. L. P. Gratacap, Curator of Mineralogy, American Museum of Natural History; Dr. Berthold Laufer, Oriental Archaeologist, and Dr. Oliver C. Farrington, Curator of Geology and Mineralogy, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago; Hereward Carrington, Esq., Psychist, New York; Dr. W. Hayes Ward, Archaeologist and Babylonian Scholar; Mrs. Henry Draper, New York; H. W. Kent, Esq., Metro- politan Museum of Art, New York City; Consul General Moser, Colombo, Ceylon; W. W. Blake, Mexico City, who has done so much to encourage Mexican archaeological investigation; the late A. Damour, of Paris, the great pioneer of mineralogical archaeology; the late Dr. A. B.