Illustrations
| COLOR PLATES | |
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| Model of a Hindu Lady, Illustrating the Mode of Wearing Jewelry in North India | Frontispiece. |
| Jade Bell of the K’ien-lung Period (1731–1795) | 143 |
| 1, 1½. Emerald that Belonged to the Deposed Sultan of Turkey. 2. Almandite Garnet. 3. Sardonyx Idol-eye of a Babylonian Bull. 4. Aquamarine Seal | 159 |
| Illustrating Precious Stones and Minerals Used for Seals in Ancient Assyria and Babylonia | 242 |
| Perforated Jade Disk Called Ts’ang Pi, a Chinese Symbol of the Deity Heaven (T’ien) | 302 |
| Turquoise Incrusted Objects, Probably Amulets, Found at Pueblo Bonito, New Mexico | 353 |
| Hilt of Jewelled Sword Given by the Greeks of the United States on Easter Day, 1913, to the Crown Prince of Greece, Later King Constantine XII | 370 |
| DOUBLETONES | |
| Indian Medicine-men | 18 |
| Chalcedony and Agate Pebbles from Pescadero Beach, San Mateo County, California | 30 |
| Pebble Beach, Redondo, Los Angeles County, California | 30 |
| Hindu Wearing a Collection of Ancestral Pebbles as Amulets | 37 |
| Killing a Dragon to Extract Its Precious Stone | 45 |
| Naturally Marked Stone | 45 |
| A Simple Apparatus for Illustrating the Electric Properties of the Tourmaline | 54 |
| Necklace of Faceted Amber Beads | 63 |
| Vignette from the “Lapidario de Alfonso X, Codice Original” | 69 |
| The “Madonna Di Foligno,” by Raphael | 73 |
| The Kaaba at Mecca | 84 |
| “Ahnighito,” the Great Cape York Meteorite, Weighing More than 36½ Tons | 96 |
| “The Woman,” Cape York Meteorite | 97 |
| “The Dog,” Cape York Meteorite | 98 |
| Two Views of the Willamette Meteorite Now in the American Museum of Natural History, New York City | 99 |
| Flint Amulets of the Predynastic Period, Egypt | 108 |
| The “Ortus Sanitatis” of Johannis De Cuba, Published at Strassburg in 1483 | 122 |
| Famous Pearl Necklace of the Unfortunate Empress Carlotta, Widow of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico | 126 |
| Jade Tongue Amulets for the Dead. Chinese | 139 |
| Frontispiece of Museum Wormianum | 141 |
| Ancient Persian Relic Known as the “Cup of Chosroes” | 154 |
| Bezoars of Emperor Rudolph II, Now in the Hofmuseum, Vienna | 216 |
| Frontispiece and Title-page of Francesco Redi’s “Experimenta Naturalia,” Amsterdam 1675, and Two Specimen Pages of This Treatise | 232 |
| Forms of Tabasheer | 233 |
| Specimens of Tabasheer | 235 |
| Zodiac Mohurs, Coined by the Mogul Sovereign Shah Jehan, about 1628 | 246 |
| The Medieval Conception of the Cosmos, the Successive Spheres of the Planets, Including the Sun, and Beyond These the Crystalline Heaven and the Empyrean | 248 |
| The Angel Raphael Refusing the Gifts Offered by Tobit | 250 |
| Santa Barbara | 258 |
| Bloodstone Medallion, Showing the Santa Casa of Loreto Carried by Angels to Dalmatia from Galilee | 267 |
| Chinese Jade Amulets for the Dead | 283 |
| La Madonna Della Salute, by Ottaviano Nelli | 287 |
| Ceremony Annually Observed in the Mogul Empire of Weighing the Sovereign Against Precious Metals, Jewels and Other Valuable Objects, Which Were Distributed as Gifts | 301 |
| The Sacred Well of Chichen Itzá | 307 |
| Carved and Worked Stones from the Sacred Well at Chichen Itzá, Yucatan, Mexico | 308 |
| Eye-Agates | 315 |
| Types of Egyptian Seals and Scarabs in the Murch Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | 316 |
| Colossal Scarab in Black Granite, British Museum | 320 |
| A Medieval Spell | 328 |
| From a Portrait of Queen Elizabeth | 337 |
| Complete View of the Ancient Jade Girdle-Pendant (From Ku Yü T’u P’u) | 341 |
| Tibetan Woman with Complete Jewelry | 343 |
| “The Light of the East” | 345 |
| Indian Medicine-man | 354 |
| Hei-Tiki Amulets of New Zealand | 362 |
| Jewelled Sword Given by the Greeks of the United States, on Easter Day, 1913, to Crown Prince Constantine, Later King Constantine XII of Greece. Top of Scabbard, Showing Didrachm of Alexander the Great | 373 |
| Side View of Hilt | 373 |
| “The Legend of the Moonstone,” Autographed for This Work by the Author of the Poem, Dr. Edward Forrester Sutton | 386 |
| Cleopatra Dissolving Her Priceless Pearl at the Banquet to Mark Antony | 394 |
| LINE CUTS | |
| Title-page of One of the Earliest Treatises on Meteorites | 91 |
| Types of Ceraunia or “Thunder-stones” | 111 |
| Interior of Fifteenth Century Pharmacy | 122 |
| Extracting Toad-stone | 162 |
| Toad-stones. Natural Concretions of Claystone and Limonite | 163 |
| Types of Cheloniæ (Tortoise-stones). Natural Concretions | 171 |
| Chelidonius, or “Swallow-stones” | 172 |
| Ætites | 175 |
| Extracting an Alectorius | 179 |
| Alectorius | 180 |
| Lapis Manati | 182 |
| Lapis Malacensis, Stone of the Hedgehog or Porcupine | 183 |
| Lapis Judaicus. Pentremite Heads | 187 |
| Glossopetræ. Fossil Shark’s Teeth | 188 |
| Belemnites. Fossilized Bony End of Extinct Cuttle-fish | 191 |
| Brontia. Fossil Sea-urchins | 193 |
| Trochites } Fossil } Crinoid Enastros } Stems |
194 |
| Bucardites Triplex | 195 |
| Types of Ombria (Fossil Sea-urchins) | 196 |
| Cornu Ammonis (Fossil Nautilus) | 197 |
| Specimens of Astroites (Asteria), or Fossil Coral | 199 |
| Application of a Bezoar to Cure a Victim of Poisoning | 202 |
| Monkey Bezoar | 204 |
| 1. Hedge-hogstone from Malacca. 2, 3. Spurious Stones of this Type Manufactured in Ceylon. | 205 |
| Calculi Taken from Bladder of Pope Pius V | 220 |
| Types of the Ovum Anguinum. Echinites (Sea-urchins) | 222 |
| Cobra de Capello | 236 |
| Canadian Indian Medicine-man | 357 |
| The Birth of the Opal | 374 |
| East Indian Baroque Pearl | 392 |