ISBN:
0806994614
Complete Book Title:Gemstones of the World, Revised & Expanded Edition
Author:Walter Schumann
Binding Type:Hard Cover with dust jacket
Copyright Date:1997
Number of Pages:280
Size:5.25 x 7.88 in.
Book Subject:Gemstones
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GEMSTONES OF THE WORLD
Completely revised and updated with more information, more pages, more color photos than ever before!
Gemstones of the World, the definitive guide to gems for over 20 years, takes the mystery out of appreciating, buying, and selling all kinds. It covers everything from the romance and history of more than 1,400 gemstones to their geographic locations, scientific, physical, and color properties, and the way they are formed, structured, and mined. With many charts and diagrams, Schumann offers full coverage of the optical features of gems light and color, luminescence, refraction, and inclusions and about densities and the chemical elements of each stone, with fascinating details on different cuts, polishing, synthetic and imitation gems, hardness, cleavage, classification, trade names, rarity, and much more all with an easy-to-understand text. And then there are the magnificent photographs of the stones themselves in brilliant full-color, with full data on the facing page. If you wanted only one book on gemstones in your library, this would be the one!
"Shows gems in their many varieties, rough and cut, in beautiful color photographs, with accompanying text which gives information useful to both the expert and the layman." SCIENCE NEWS
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