THE CURIOUS LORE OF PRECIOUS STONES: Being a Description of Their Sentiments and Folk Lore, Superstitions, Symbolism, Mysticism, Use in Medicine, Protection, Prevention, Religion and Divination, Crystal Gazing, Birthstones, Lucky Stones and Talismans, Astral, Zodiacal, and Planetary by George Frederick Kunz Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott Company, (1913).
Illustrated with six brilliant color plates, fifty-seven double-tones on striking black-and-white plates, and twenty-four line-cuts in the text. This lavish first edition production has high-grade gold-gilt, high-quality stock paper, a sturdy sewn polished-cloth binding, and impressive high-quality, high-contrast plates. Beautifully preserved decorative binding with unusually bright and unblemished front cover art. A touch of rubbing to the upper and lower spine edges and corner tips, else very nearly fine in bold deep-blue linen with sky-blue embossed titles and colored illustration that is outlined and decorated with strikingly bright gilt to the front cover, sky-blue embossed titles and a gilt outlined vignette illustration to the spine, upper page edges bright gilt, deep-blue headband and tail-band; no dust jacket. A comprehensive history, explanation and analysis of the meanings, significance, superstitions, and uses of gems, stones, and crystals with a look at the peoples and cultures that have employed them.
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