[Rocks and gems] Le Parfaict Joaillier

Ou Histoire des Pierreries: Ou sont amplement descrites leur naissance, juste prix, moyen de les cognoistre, & se garder des contrefaites, facultez medecinales, & proprietez curieuse. Composé par Anselme Boece de Boot [Boetius]. Lyon, Jean Antoine Huegetan, 1644. 8vo, leather, title in red and black with large printer's mark, (32),746,(34),(1) pp., 45 wood engravings in the text, 8 text tables and 1 (of 2) folding tables.

Binding with traces of use, front board tender, ann. to endpapers, folding table with tear, small stains and waterstaining. Else a good copy of this mineralogical standard work. The first French translation of the original Latin edition (Gemmarum et Lapidum Historia). Boetius was a Flemish physician, humanist, scholar and mineralogist.