Collecting and Classifying Coloured Diamonds

Stephen C. Hofer

ISBN 10: 0965941019 / ISBN 13: 9780965941013

Published by Ashland Press, New York, 1998

About this Item

4to, xxi + pp742 beautifully illustrated throughout with charts and more than 700 colour photographs. Hardcover with dust jacket. DJ in very good condition with a little shelf wear to top of spine with small tear, a little rubbing to front cover and edges. Black cloth binding with gilt titles to spine in very good+ condition with very minimal shelf wear to top of spine. Inside in near fine condition. a very good copy of this beautifully produced book that showcases the Aurora Collection, one of the world's largest collections of natural coloured diamonds ever to be shown in public. Each of the 260 diamonds were photographed with precise colour calibration, and the book's printing has also been precisely colour matched and calibrated, so that the diamonds can be seen reproduced as realistically as possible. This is a very heavy book and may cost extra postage overseas.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collecting and Classifying Coloured Diamonds
• Publisher: Ashland Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0965941019
• ISBN 13: 9780965941013
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science and Medicine

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Synopsis

Title: Collecting and Classifying Coloured Diamonds: An Illustrated Study of the Aurora Collection

About the Author

Stephen Hofer began his career in the earth sciences in 1976 as a geophysicist at the University of Connecticut. He studied gemology at the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) and the gemmological Association of Great Britain (GAGB), graduating with distinction.

In 1979 he accepted a position with the GIA Research Department, and since then he has devoted his career to the study of colored diamonds. In 1985 he became president of Colored Diamond Laboratory Services (CDLS), and currently operates a consulting service to the diamond industry.

He has lectured extensively on the subject of colour in diamonds, was one of sixty featured speakers at the 1981 International Gemological Symposium, has published numerous technical papers, and authored a quarterly column on coloured diamonds for New York Diamonds magazine. Mr. Hofer is an accomplished diamond cutter and a graduate of the American Institute of Diamond Cutting (AIDC).