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FEUCHTWANGER, LEWIS. A Treatise on Gems. 1838

FEUCHTWANGER, LEWIS. A Treatise on Gems. 162 pages. 8vo, 228x138 mm, original cloth with remnant of paper lettering piece, worn overall; mostly moderate foxing throughout, contemporary inscription on front flyleaf. Newspaper cutting and bookplate of William Phipps Blake on front pastedown. New York: A. Hanford, 1838

  • Notes: Second edition of the first book on gemology to appear in the United States, published the same year as the first edition. Feuchtwanger (1805-72) was a German-Jewish physician, chemist, and mineralogist who settled in New York. Schuh, Feuchtwanger 2; Sinkankas 2082.

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