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Specimen de gemmarum origine & virtutibus : In quo proponuntur & historicè illustrantur quaedam conjecturae circa consistentiam materiae lapidum praetiosorum, & subjecta, in quibus eorum praecipuae virtutes consistunt / Primum anglicè conscriptum authore Roberto Boyle ... Nunc latinè, interprete C.S.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - E.F. Smith Collection Boyle 540.4 B699.16.L
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Precious stones--Early works to 1800.
- Precious stones.
- Gems--Early works to 1800.
- Gems.
- Penn Provenance:
- Cuvier, Georges baron 1769-1832 (stamp) (Boyle Collection copy)
- Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (France) (stamp) (Boyle Collection copy)
- Fosetu[?], Claude (autograph) (Boyle Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 20 unnumbered pages, 206 pages ; 13 cm (8vo)
- Other Title:
- Specimen de gemmarum origine [et] virtutibus
- Fingerprint:
- em*- isb- e-i, paIl (3) 1673 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- Hamburgi : apud Gothofredum Schultz; Prostant Amsterodami, apud Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge, MDCLXXIII [1673]
- Notes:
- Signatures: )(¹⁰ A-H¹² I⁶ K².
- With an added engraved t.p.
- Title printed in red and black.
- Title vignette; head- and tail-pieces.
- Local Notes:
- Boyle Collection copy is from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection, with a pictorial bookplate on front pastedown that reads "The Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection University of Pennsylvania."
- Boyle Collection copy bound in full parchment; ms. author and brief title on spine in brown ink.
- Boyle Collection copy imperfect: added engraved t.p. wanting.
- Boyle Collection copy has the ownership stamp of the French naturalist and zoologist Georges Cuvier in black ink on t.p. ("G. Cuvier"); and two library stamps in black ink of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle of Paris, France ("Bibliotheque de Muse[um]" (partially cropped); and "Museum d'Histoire Naturelle").
- Boyle Collection copy has a partially illegible ownership inscription on t.p. in brown ink ("Claude Fosetu[?]").
- Cited in:
- Fulton, John F. Bibliography of the honourable Robert Boyle, 98
- OCLC:
- 7073871
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