There's a book in act 1 that describes how to make gunpowder (ie mix coal, salt and sulphur). I believe (not a 100% sure though) it was in room 27 on this map.
For the book about the seeing stone, I've seen it in a3 a couple of times (there's not just one book); I believe one of them was in the raanaar library...

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