GEMS AND GEM MINERALS
by Oliver Cummings Farrington
publisher: Chicago: A.W. Mumford, 1903. First Edition  Gilt stamped cloth hardcover; owner vintage bookplate inside cover and name penned small endpaper ; wear inside covers ; newspaper clipping front endpaper;  inner gutter tears inner edge endpapers ; covers shaky else as-is intact with color plates; 229 pages with index; Illustrated, including 16 color plates.  GEMSTONES MINERALOGY MEANINGS, superstitions regarding gems, cutting and mounting, qualities, luster, color, mining, valuation , price ..

"Oliver Cummings Farrington (October 9, 1864 – November 2, 1933) was an American geologist... in 1893 he was an assistant in the United States National Museum, in 1894 he became curator geology in the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, and from 1894 to 1904 he was lecturer on mineralogy at the University of Chicago. He was a collaborator in mines and mineralogy at the Paris Exposition in 1900 and a member of the International Jury of Awards at St. Louis in 1904. He was the president of the American Association of Museums "