_Emblematic Meanings of Precious Stones_ (Vol. viii., p. 539.; Vol. ix. p.
37.).--To the list of works on the mystical and occult properties of
precious stones given by MR. W. PINKERTON, allow me to add the following,
in which the means of judging of their commercial value, and their
medicinal properties, are chiefly treated of:
"Le Parfaict Ioaillier, ov Histoire des Pierreries: ov sont amplement
descrites, leur naissance, juste prix, moyen de les cognoistre, et se
garder des contrefaites, Facultez medicinales, et proprietez curieuses.
Composé par Anselme Bocce de Boot, &c.: Lyon, 1644, 12mo., pp. 788."