Simon & Schuster's Guide to Gems and Precious Stones
Simon & Schuster's Guide to Gems and Precious Stones provides both the connoisseur and the casual collector with a compact, easy-to-use volume describing more than 100 rare varieties of minerals whose beauty and mystery have possessed our imaginations from time immemorial. More than 450 brilliant photographs accompany profiles of each gem, covering such aspects as appearance, physical properties -- density, hardness, refraction -- occurrence, and how to judge quality and value. Additional sections describe the process of cutting gemstones and the techniques professional gemologists use to evaluate a stone's weight and optical properties.
Detailed and comprehensive, this book is essential for anyone interested in the study of gems and precious stones.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Aug 13, 2007 Type: User Review |
Excellent book on gemstone
This is an excellent book for anyone wanting to learn about the physical properties of gemstones. It would be especially useful to students interested in the scientific properties of gems. I found it useful because it describes where gemstones are...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 22, 2007 Type: User Review |
The Old Ones are sometimes still the Best
This books been around for quite a number of years now but has to be simply the BEST illustrated book on Gems there is. It's absolutely jam packed FULL of all the information you need to learn about precious stones.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 04, 2007 Type: User Review |
Underwhelmed
Well written but a bit out of date. Scientific data often ages like egg salad on a warm day.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 03, 2007 Type: User Review |
Simon & Schuster's Guide to Gems and Precious Stones
an encyclopedia of knowledge on stones and gems.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 27, 2006 Type: User Review |
its my 10th gem book
and it is a little more technical than the rest (explains things like twinning, establishment of density, calculating specific gravity, cleavage, moh's scale, refractive indices, law of refraction, genesis, cutting, cutting styles etc).
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