[Rarebooks] FS: 1st Eng. trans. of Leonardus' "The Mirror of Stones" London: 1750

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Leonardus, Camillus. THE MIRROR OF STONES: in Which the Nature, Generation, Properties, Virtues and Various Species of More Than 200 Different Jewels... Are Distinctly Described... Now First Translated into English. London: Printed for J. Freeman. 1750. 8vo. 240pp. Note: as in all copies, text of pp. 120-199 is omitted from the pagination. Early calf (circa 1800), gilt, with blind stamped borders on both covers, hinges somewhat rubbed. Preliminaries a bit foxed. Overall a very nice copy of a very scarce book.	$2,500.00
The first English translation of Leonardi’s SPECULAM LAPIDUM (1502). See Sinkankis, GEMOLOGY #3896. Stillwell, AWAKENING INTEREST IN SCIENCE #670 (the 1502 edition).


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