BOYLE, ROBERT.

Specimen de gemmarum origine & virtutibus. [20], 206 pages, including engraved frontispiece depicting Europeans and Africans examining a chest of jewels. 12mo, later vellum, covers slightly warped; contents browned, short clean tear in outer margin of opening leaves. Hamburg: Gottfried Schultz, 1673 first edition of this translation, preceded by another Latin version published the same year in London; title-page issue, with Schultz imprint only. Fulton 98 (not noting this variant); Sinkankas 866.