George Frederick Kunz was a self-taught mineralogist who, helped by his encyclopaedic knowledge of gemmology, rose to be Vice-President of Tiffany's.

First edition; large 8vo; 86 illustrations (6 colour plates including frontispiece, the rest duotone and line drawings); publisher's blue cloth, gilt designs to spine and upper cover, top edge gilt, others uncut, extremities slightly rubbed; a very good copy.