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MAJOR WORK ON GEMS BRÜCKMANN, URBAN FRIEDRICH B. Abhandlung von Edelsteinen. Engraved title vignette. 8vo, eighteenth-century speckled calf,
MAJOR WORK ON GEMS BRÜCKMANN, URBAN FRIEDRICH B. Abhandlung von Edelsteinen. Engraved title vignette. 8vo, eighteenth-century speckled calf, rubbed. Second Edition. Braunschweig, 1773
- Notes: best and final edition of this major work on gems. The book, written by the court physician to the Duke of Brunswick, is remarkable for its detailed appendix and glossary of ancient gemological and mineralogical terms. The second edition expands upon classification schemes to include new gemstones, granites, "metallic" stones, petrified materials, and more. "Enormously enlarged... [Brückmann was] indefatigable in both research in the literature and in the personal examination of gemstones, minerals, and fossils"--Sinkankas 975.
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