[Rarebooks] FS: Freher's 1681 work on gemology.

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(GEMOLOGY) Freher, Marquand. GEMMARUM BIGA SCIL. SARDONYX ET SAPPHIRUS... Recusa & Notis Quibusdam Aucta per Henr. Gunt. Thulemarium... Heidelbergai: Joh. Michaelis Rudigeri. 1681. 4to. 2 parts in 1. (10),16;30pp. With the folding frontispiece portrait of the author. Bound in 20th century black buckram with gilt spine.  Very scarce.    $450.00 (trade discount allowed)
The
 text describes a sardonyx engraved gem in the "cabinet" of Herman-Adoph, Count of Solms. Sinkankas, GEMOLOGY #2235 (without the portrait).

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