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(DIAMONDS.) Bournon, Jacques Louis, Comte de. Descriptive Catalogue of Diamonds in the Cabinet of Sir Abraham Hume, Bart. M.P. Folding table and 4
(DIAMONDS.) Bournon, Jacques Louis, Comte de. Descriptive Catalogue of Diamonds in the Cabinet of Sir Abraham Hume, Bart. M.P. Folding table and 4 folding engraved plates. 4to, rebound in later half cloth, some wear; plates bound upside-down at end and spotted, page XXI numbered XIX, ex-library American Museum of Natural History, with embossed stamp and pencil numbers on title recto, stamp on verso. London, 1815
- Notes: first english edition published simultaneously in French and English. "Important dissertation... possibly the first such elaborate and realistic representation of the true forms of diamond to be published"--Sinkankas 828-29.
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