The best (saith Plinie) is transparent like limpid water, or a Crystall. Boetius saith, that some of these stones are like to obscure Crystalls; and that there are others of a brownish colour; and that there are some found distinguisht with sanguine veins.
A lapidary, or, The history of pretious [sic] stones with cautions for the undeceiving of all those that deal with pretious [sic] stones / by Thomas Nicols ...
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- A lapidary, or, The history of pretious [sic] stones with cautions for the undeceiving of all those that deal with pretious [sic] stones / by Thomas Nicols ...
- Author
- Nicols, Thomas.
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- Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] :: Printed by Thomas Buck ...,
- 1652.
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- Precious stones -- Early works to 1800.
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Its kinds.