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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Art. III. ? 1. Edelateinkunde. Von Dr. Max Bauer. Leipzig: 1896. 2. Precious Stones. By A. H. Chuhch, M.A., Professor of Chemistry in the Royal Academy of Arts. London: 1883. 3. Gems and Precious Stones of North America. By George Frederick Kunz. New York: 1890. 4. Cantor Lectures. By Professor Henry Miers, M.A., F.E.S. Delivered before the Society of Arts. London: 1896. 5. La Gravure en Pierres fines, Camees et Intailles. Par E. Babelon. Paris: 1894. V7oMAN is and has long been a ' decorative creature.' As such she has always had a strong affection for those beautiful products of Nature which form the subject of this article; and it may be hoped that she will continue to love them, in spite of the pestilent heresy of Sydney Smith, who is said to have urged his wife to run instantly, before the world grew wiser, to dispose of some trinkets which had been left her. If man in the West is not now equally interested in precious stones, the balance is redressed in the East, where through wide regions they are still highly prized by the lords of creation. It often happens, however, that persons who admire them very much know nothing about them, and we propose in the present paper, without trespassing on the domain of the savant, to bring together a good many facts which a lover of gems would, we think, rather learn than not?the sort of facts which the owner of a collection of them might like to tell his friends while they were looking over it. But what are precious stones? That question may be answered in a variety of ways. Some, including Cellini, confine the title to the emerald, the oriental ruby, the diamond, and the sapphire; others would admit the opal, the turquoise, and, strange to say, the pearl, which belongs more to the animal than to the mineral kingdom. We s...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458875853 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458875857 |
| Weight | 0.73 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.51 In |
| List Price | $30.61 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 222 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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