Precious stones : a popular account of their characters, occurrence and applications with an introduction to their determination, for mineralogists, lapidaries, jewellers, etc. With an appendix on pearls and coral

Dr Max Bauer (translated from the German with additions by L. J. Spencer)

Verlag: Charles Griffin and Company, Ltd., London, 1904

Beschreibung

4to, xv + pp627 plus corrigenda page and preface, collated, complete with 7 b/w plates, 5 colour plates and a further eight chromolithographic plates with descriptive tissue guards, from the originals painted by Herr E. Ohmann of Berlin, 18 b/w maps and numerous b/w illustrations throughout text. Hardcover no dust jacket. Original half red leather binding with five raised bands, gilt titles and decorations to spine in reasonable condition with rubbing to all edges, top & tail of spine, edges of spine and tips of boards. Inside both hinges professionally repaired, with all pages and plates in excellent clean and bright condition with toning to tissue guards. A nice copy of this definitive work. Scarce 1st engligh language edition. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 001227

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Precious stones : a popular account of their...

Verlag: Charles Griffin and Company, Ltd., London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1904

Einband: Hardcover

Illustrator: Herr E. Ohmann

Zustand: Good

Auflage: 1st Edition