Beschreibung:

Jewellery.- Boodt (Anselmus Boetius de) Le Parfaict joaillier, ou Histoire des pierreries, où sont amplement descrites leur naissance, juste prix, moyen de les cognoitre, & se garder des contrefaites, facultez medicinales, & proprietez curieuses, title in red and black and with large engraved printer's device, 2 folding letterpress tables, a few woodcut illustrations, errata f. at end, without cancel leaf F8 (pp.95-96), trimmed at head, affecting part of a number of headlines, some browning to 1 table, occasional spotting, 19th century calf-backed marbled boards, rebacked, rubbed, [Sinkankas 780; Schuh 710; Ward & Carozzi 254; Krivatsy 1541; Caillet 1286], 8vo, Lyon, Jean-Antoine Huguetan, 1644. ⁂ Rare first edition in French of 'the first treatise to offer more than the briefest of views of gem cutting' (Sinkankas).