A popular treatise on gems, in reference to their scientific value; a guide for the teacher of natural sciences, the jeweller, and amateur: together with a description of the elements of mineralogy, and all ornamental and architectural materials .. (1859)
Feuchtwanger, Lewis. [from old catalog] · New York, D. Appleton & company · leaf 483
PLATE XIII. No. 1.—Tertiary brecciated Marble, from the Pyrenees. ISTo. 2.—Red Granite, consisting of red felspar, grey quartz, ancblack mica, from Upper Egypt; used by the ancient Egyptians intheir monuments. No. 3.—Fibrous Calcite, or so-called Thermal Tufa, Sprudel-stein, from Carlsbad. No.…
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