Gems and Gem Minerals

Farrington, Oliver Cummings. Gems and Gem Minerals. Chicago: A.W. Mumford, 1903. First edition. Quarto. 229pp. Green cloth with gold stamped lettering on cover and spine. Frontispiece color illustration of the twelve birthstones. 16 color plates plus 71 b/w half-tones photographs, line engravings, drawings, maps and tables illustrate this classic work on gemology. Thoroughly covers gem properties, such as color, luster, hardness, specific graviaty, optical, electrical, phosphorescence and fluorescence; forms, cutting and mounting; valuation and price; imitations; superstitions; with individual essays on 60 gems. Index. Binding lightly frayed at edges and ends of spine. Foxing and age-toning in block, not affecting images. Starting at endpapers. In overall good- condition. g-. Hardcover. (36588) $45