NICOLS, Thomas. A Lapidary: or, the history of Pretious Stones: with cautions for the undeceiving of all those that deal with Pretious Stones, Cambridge: Thomas Buck, 1652, small 4to, FIRST EDITION, one folding table (laminated repairs, a few margins lightly dampstained, ?lacking half title), 19th-century calf gilt by Zaehnsdorf, bookplate of Duncan Andrews. [Sinkankas 4754; Wing N1145]

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NICOLS, Thomas. A Lapidary: or, the history of Pretious Stones: with cautions for the undeceiving of all those that deal with Pretious Stones, Cambridge: Thomas Buck, 1652, small 4to, FIRST EDITION, one folding table (laminated repairs, a few margins lightly dampstained, ?lacking half title), 19th-century calf gilt by Zaehnsdorf, bookplate of Duncan Andrews. [Sinkankas 4754; Wing N1145]

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"Regarding the text proper, this is the first independent gemmological book written or published by an British author...The importance of this landmark gemmology lies in several features among which is the attempt of the author to provide a scheme of classification which is largely taken from Boetius de Boodt, and as in his Gemmarum, printed upon a folding table." (Sinkankas)

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