FERNIE, William Thomas. Precious Stones: for curative wear: and other remedial uses: likewise the nobler metals, Bristol: John Wright, 1907, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, (small hole in half title, title and first few leaves, occasional browning and spotting), original cloth gilt (small hole in upper cover). [Sinkankas 2025]

细节

FERNIE, William Thomas. Precious Stones: for curative wear: and other remedial uses: likewise the nobler metals, Bristol: John Wright, 1907, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, (small hole in half title, title and first few leaves, occasional browning and spotting), original cloth gilt (small hole in upper cover). [Sinkankas 2025]

拍品专文

"In this most valuable treatise, Fernie strove for and succeeded in assembling a great store of information on curative and other properties of gemstones involved in the healing arts. It is painstaking, erudite, and above all, keenly critical so that the lore contained therein is not merely parroted without comment but carefully balanced against modern medicinal knowledge." (Sinkankas)