10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EGYPTIAN JASPER»
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Ancient
Egyptian Materials and Technology
... with the modern observation that the largest quantities of Egyptian jasper are
located in the area of the Eastern Desert to the northwest and west of Quseir.
Barron and Hume (1902: 266) describe the occurrence of 'red jasper of good
quality, ...
Paul T. Nicholson, Ian Shaw, 2000
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A description of the minerals in the Leskean Museum
793 Extremely delicate, and almost perfectly hair brown, annulated Egyptian
Jasper, but in some places spotted and sprinkled with greyish white. 794 A piece
of Egyptian Jasper, of a partly reddish and greyish white, partly brown colour, ...
Dietrich Ludwig Gustav Karsten, 1798
This species is divided into five subspecies, viz. Egyptian Jasper, Striped Jasper,
Porcelain-Jasper, Common Jasper, and Agate-Jasper. First Subspecies.
Egyptian Jasper. This subspecies is subdivided into two kinds, viz. Red Egyptian
Jasper ...
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The imperial encyclopaedic dictionary: a new and exhaustive ...
Egyptian-lotus,. s. Bot.: Nymphwa lotus. tEgyptian-pebbie, s. Min. : The same as
Egyptian- jasper (q. v.). Egyptian-rose, s. Bot. : (1) Scnhiosa arvensis, ('!) S.
atropurpurea. They havo uo affinity to the genuine genus Rosa.
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Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of ...
Egyptian Jasper, polished. 784 and 785. Egyptian Jasper. Presented by the late
Dr. Buist. 786. Snuff-Box of Egyptian Jasper. 787. Carved Egyptian Jasper, set
with Turquoises and an Aquamarine. 788 to 791. Heliotrope, or Bloodstone. 792.
Geological Survey of Great Britain, 1864
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Catalogue of the Mineral Collections ...
Egyptian Jasper, polished. 784 and 785. Egyptian Jasper. Presented by the late
Dr. Buist. 786. Snuff-Box of Egyptian Jasper. 787. Carved Egyptian Jasper, set
with Turquoises and an Aquamarine. 788 to 791. Heliotrope, or Bloodstone. 792.
Museum of Practical Geology (Great Britain), 1864
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The Cyclopædia: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, ...
I. Egyptian. jasper; 2. Ribbond jasper zi 3. Porcelain jasper; 4. Common jasper; 5.
Agat-e jasper, and 6. Opal jasper. They agree in their being opaque or slightly
translucent at the edges, in hardly ever affecting vivid "colours, in their always ...
daily among the excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii fragments of ruins
composed of Egyptian Jasper. Jasper occurs in enormous masses ; has a
conchoidal fracture, js opaque ; its lustre is slightly resinous, like wax, often dull ;
it is of ...
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An elementary treatise on mineralogy and geology
In the Harz, it is associated with siliceous slate. S. EGYPTIAN JASPER-'l' JA
MBSON. It is well characterized by its globular or spheroidal form, sometimes
flattened, and by the arrangement of its colors. These colors are brown, yellowish
brown ...
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A dictionary of chemistry and mineralogy: with their ...
He enumerates five kinds : Egyptian jasper, striped, porcelain, common, and
agate jasper. 1. Egyptian jasper, of which there is red and hrown. The first is flesh
-red, hlood-red, yellow, and hrown, in ring-shaped delineations; in roundish
pieces ...
Andrew Ure, William Nicholson, 1835