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(PHOTOGRAPHICALLY ILLUSTRATED.) The Science of Gems, Jewels, Coins, and Medals, Ancient and Modern. By Archibald Billing. Illustrated with 18 albumen prints picturing 160 gems, jewels, cameos, coins, and medals. 4to, gilt-pictorial blue cloth with a mounted albumen print, edges and head and tail of spine lightly rubbed and worn; tender; bookplate; all edges gilt. first edition, signed and inscribed by "the author." London: Bell & Daldy, 1867
The bookplate on the front pastedown belongs to John Sinkankas, who published fifteen books on gems and minerals, including his monumental work "Gemology: An Annotated Bibliography." In that work, Sinkankas referred to the volume offered here as "the only one employing actual photographic prints (by F. Cole) as illustrations and should be counted as an incunabulum of gemological books so illustrated." Tipped into the title page here is a typed bibliographic excerpt from King, "Antique Gems & Rings," which also mentions this work, perhaps placed there by Sinkankas while compiling his own bibliography.
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