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"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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"A precious stone is a small, rare, hard stone which has inherited from Nature the name of beautiful." Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
"A precious stone is a small, rare, hard stone which has inherited from Nature the name of beautiful." Read the first page
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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The Old Ones are sometimes still the Best,
By Terry Tozer "TJSKA.com" (Reading, Bracknell, Brighton & Hove, UK) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Simon and Schuster's Guide to Gems and Precious Stones (Nature Guide Series) (Paperback)
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.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Essential Read!!,
By Gemjunior (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Simon and Schuster's Guide to Gems and Precious Stones (Nature Guide Series) (Paperback)
Very informative book more so than DK Gemstones! It has a lot of info on id stones and detailed descriptions of each stone with good photos of stones and inclusions etc to look for. More for the serious student who wants a bit more information than just a picture book. Really good quality and value book get it!!
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This review is from: Simon and Schuster's Guide to Gems and Precious Stones (Nature Guide Series) (Paperback)
Always fascinated by sparkling stones, and how and where they are found, informative book, great pictures. Now where do I get my huge diamond from.
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