Precious Stones: a Popular Account of Their Characters, Occurrence, & Applications, with an Introduction to Their Determination, for Mineralogists, Lapidaries, Jewellers, etc., and with New Appendices on Synthetic Gems & the Cultured Pearl

Dr. Max Bauer (text); L. J. Spencer (translation from the German with additions)

ISBN 10: 0804804893 / ISBN 13: 9780804804899

Published by Rutland & Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Co., Publishers, 1982

About this Item

Second printing. Thick quarto in dust jacket and publisher-issued cardboard slipcase. Color plates and B&W illustrations. Condition: diagonal crease to frontispiece illustration; else as new in as new dust jacket in near fine slipcase, which has minor wear. Pages: xviii, 647.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Precious Stones: a Popular Account of Their Characters, Occurrence, & Applications, with an Introduction to Their Determination, for Mineralogists, Lapidaries, Jewellers, etc., and with New Appendices on Synthetic Gems & the Cultured Pearl
• Publisher: Rutland & Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Co., Publishers
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804804893
• ISBN 13: 9780804804899
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Weight: 6 pounds

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Synopsis

Volume 2 of a classic, thorough study of precious and semi-precious stones: diamond, topaz, opal, turquoise, ruby, emerald, garnet, more. Fullest, most exhaustive survey ever prepared. "The most detailed work on gems." — Encyclopedia Britannica. Translated by L. C. Spencer. Total in set: 20 plates, 8 in color. 94 figures.