MAWE, John. A Treatise on Diamonds, and Precious Stones: including their history-natural and commercial. To which is added, the methods of cutting & polishing , London: printed for and sold by the author, and Longmann, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823. Small 8, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, 4 engraved plates, of which 2 are hand-coloured, with dedication leaf (the plain plates lightly spotted, a few spots in the text), contemporary half calf (rebacked, old label relaid, lightly rubbed). Second edition, first published in 1813. "One of the first general treatises on gemstones in the English language, that is refreshingly free of fantasy and superstition; it is instead, a factual, easy to read, and surprisingly complete work on the subject ... Complete copies of this edition are difficult to find and commonly the dedication leaf is absent" (Sinkankas). Sinkankas 4286.
MAWE, John. A Treatise on Diamonds, and Precious Stones: including their history-natural and commercial. To which is added, the methods of cutting & polishing , London: printed for and sold by the author, and Longmann, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823. Small 8, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, 4 engraved plates, of which 2 are hand-coloured, with dedication leaf (the plain plates lightly spotted, a few spots in the text), contemporary half calf (rebacked, old label relaid, lightly rubbed). Second edition, first published in 1813. "One of the first general treatises on gemstones in the English language, that is refreshingly free of fantasy and superstition; it is instead, a factual, easy to read, and surprisingly complete work on the subject ... Complete copies of this edition are difficult to find and commonly the dedication leaf is absent" (Sinkankas). Sinkankas 4286.
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