Illustrations
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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
xivThe “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
xvHei-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
The Magic of Jewels and Charms
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