SCIENCE/GEMMOLOGY] - Lot 4

SCIENCE/GEMMOLOGY] BOECE DE BOOT (Anselm) & TOKI (André)] Le parfaitict joailler ou histoire des pierreries où sont amplement descrites leur naissance, juste prix, moyen de les connaitre & se garder des contrefaites, facultés médicinales & propriétés curieuses. Et de nouveau enrichi de belles annotations, indices & figures, par André Toll. Lyon, Huguetan, 1644. One volume in-8 in full calf, spine ribbed, gilt decoration and title-pieces of: title, (8) preface, (4) warning, (3) in memoriam, (12) catalog, (3) privilege, 746 pages, (34) tables and 2 folding plates out of text. First edition in French of the "Gemmarum et Lapidum historia", a work of the greatest importance for the history of mineralogy and gemmology, in which the author sketches a classification of minerals and describes their properties, value and medical use. Illustrated with woodcuts in the text and two fold-out tables. Rare. Some foxing. Binding weakened, corners very dull, spines split.