KUNZ, George Frederick & Charles Hugh STEVENSON. The Book of the Pearl. The History, art, science, and industry of the Queen of the germs, London: Macmillan, 1908, 8°, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, plates, some coloured, original cloth, elaborately decorated in gilt (front inner hinge cracked, lightly rubbed) [cf. Sinkankas: "prized ... for the enormous amount of reliable information ... indeed still unmatched in any work since"]