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FIRST TREATISE ON SCIENTIFIC GEMOLOGY HAÜY, RENE JUST. Traité des Caractèrees Physiques des Pierres Précieuses pour servir à leur Détermination
FIRST TREATISE ON SCIENTIFIC GEMOLOGY HAÜY, RENE JUST. Traité des Caractèrees Physiques des Pierres Précieuses pour servir à leur Détermination lorsqu'elles ont été Taillées. 3 folding engraved plates. 8vo, contemporary boards later rebacked in morocco gilt; light foxing to plates, offsetting on preliminary and endleaves from what appears to be old tape; ex-library Franklin Institute, with mounted bookplates on endpapers Paris, 1817
- Notes: first edition of the first formal treatise on scientific gemology and the basis for all other works on identification through mineralogical properties. "A work of fundamental importance in the science of gemology and marking the transition from a purely descriptive method to accurate determination of properties and applying them to identification"--Sinkankas 2811.
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