Diamonds and precious stones, a popular account of gems ...
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781425529253
Subjects: American history; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; United States - General; History / United States / General
First sentence: IN the following pages we intend to treat not merely of precious stones strictly so called-that is, such mineral substances as have in all times attracted the attention of man by their hardness, their brilliancy, their colour, their scarcity, &amp;c., but also of a certain number of productions which have nothing in common with the true precious stones, either in composition or origin, but which as articles of finery and adornment play precisely the same part as the latter.