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Gemmarum et Lapidum historia

by BOODT, Anselm de

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Leyde, J. Maire, 1636. *** Seconde édition; la première augmentée des commentaires d'Adrian Toll. Ouvrage de la plus grande importance pour l'histoire de la minéralogie et de la gemmologie. Boodt a tenté la premier de classer les minéraux. Il en connaît près de 600 et décrit leurs propriétés, leur valeur et leur usage médical. Illustré par 43 bois gravés dans le texte et 2 tableaux dépliants. Les gravures montrent des pierres, des cristaux, des machines pour tailler et polir les pierres précieuses et même des fossiles. Provenance : signature de l'époque sur la page de titre : "Ex catalogo librorum Eberbardi (?)". Quelques passages soulignés par la même plume. Coins usés, quelques feuillets légèrement brunis. Bon exemplaire dans l'ensemble. DSB 2, 293. Ward, Carrozzi 252.*** In-8 de (8), 576, (22) pp., 2 tabl. dépl. hors-texte. Vélin à rabats. (Reliure de l'époque.) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Second edition. Published after De Boodt's death, this is the first one with Leiden physician Adrian Toll's commentaries. Illustrated by 43 woodcuts in text. "In his Gemmarum et Lapidum Historia, Boodt made the first attempt at a systematic description of minerals, dividing the minerals into great and small, rare and common, hard and soft, combustible and incombustible, transparent and opaque. He uses a scale of hardness expressed in three degrees and notes the crystalline forms of some minerals (triangular, quadratic, and hexangular). Boodt criticizes some of the views of Aristotle, Pliny, Paracelsus, and others. He also mentions atoms. He enumerates about 600 minerals that he knows from personal observation, and describes their properties, values, imitations, and medical applications. There are also tables of values of diamonds according to their size and a short description of the polishing of precious stones. Boodt cites nineteen authors and, besides the minerals known to him, gives a list of 233 minerals whose names he knows from Pliny and Bartholomeus Anglicus, among others." D.S.B. 2, 293. Contemporary vellum. - -.

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Gemmarum et Lapidum historia
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