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TREASURES OF THE INDIES BERQUEN, ROBERT DE. Les merveilles des Indes Orientales et Occidentales, ou Nouveau traitté des pierres précieuses & Perles,
TREASURES OF THE INDIES BERQUEN, ROBERT DE. Les merveilles des Indes Orientales et Occidentales, ou Nouveau traitté des pierres précieuses & Perles, contenant leur vraye nature, dureté, couleurs & vertus. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the dedicatee, Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orléans, Duchesse de Monpensier, slightly trimmed along left margin. [8], 152 pages. 4to, contemporary polished sheep with gilt central lozenge on covers within ornamental ruled border, rubbed with some loss at spine ends; scattered light browning; armorial bookplates of H. Th. Baron and Boyer de Ste. Suzanne. Paris: Christophe Lambin, 1669
- Notes: second edition of a very early and important treatise on gemstones, pearls, and precious metals of the East and West Indies. "Augmented with an appendix which recounts the history of the Spanish conquest of the New World"--Sinkankas 593; Sabin 4957.
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