BOODT, Anselmus Boetius de

GEMMARUM ET LAPIDUM HISTORIA

      Leiden: Joannis Maire, Leiden: Joannis Maire,, 1636.. 8vo, (8), 576, (21 index)pp, 2 folding tables (with tears), woodcuts in the text. Contemp. full vellum, back soiled, otherwise very good.. ! Second Edition, corrected, of one of the most important gemology books of the 17th century. ODe Boodt assembled virtually all of the knowledge then extantE by far the most thorough and complete up to dateE [his work] is further distinguished by its intimate knowledge of the art of the lapidary and must therefore be regarded as the first treatise to offer more than the briefest views of gem cuttingO (Sinkankas). First published in 1609, this second edition edited by Adrianus Toll includes new illustration and fewer archaic Latin phrases. The woodcuts include a double-page illustration of corals, illustrations of geodes, fossils, gems, minerals, along with tools and methods of working them. Sinkankas 779.