Gemstones: A Complete Color Reference for Precious and Semiprecious Stones of the World

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{NEW} Hardback; flexboard binding. Glossy pictorial cover art. This book guides you through all aspects of the world of gems, exploring the different characteristics and ... properties of minerals, gems, and precious metals. Read more Show Less

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A complete color guide to identifying and investigating gemstones.

This book guides you through all aspects of the world of gems, exploring the different characteristics and properties of minerals, gems, and precious metals.

  • Combines cutting-edge writing with beautiful full-color photography that captures the beauty of a fascinating array of natural and cut stones.
  • Presents a wonderfully designed, in-depth directory that identifies each gemstone in turn, exploring every facet of common and rare gemstones, and precious metals.
  • Includes an at-a-glance ...

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Overview


A complete color guide to identifying and investigating gemstones.

This book guides you through all aspects of the world of gems, exploring the different characteristics and properties of minerals, gems, and precious metals.

  • Combines cutting-edge writing with beautiful full-color photography that captures the beauty of a fascinating array of natural and cut stones.
  • Presents a wonderfully designed, in-depth directory that identifies each gemstone in turn, exploring every facet of common and rare gemstones, and precious metals.
  • Includes an at-a-glance gallery of gemstones in miniature, plus a failsafe step-by-step identification system.
  • Reveals interesting facts and surrounding folklore, as well as formation, structure, physical properties, and characteristics of gems, and details of how each might be worked and displayed.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781435106109
  • Publisher: Sterling
  • Publication date: 10/10/2008
  • Pages: 320
  • Product dimensions: 4.24 (w) x 8.16 (h) x 0.92 (d)

Meet the Author


Karen Hurrell is a freelance journalist, and bestselling author of many books, including Snapshots in Time, and The Unexplained. She has been fascinated by rocks, minerals, and gems for over a decade. Karen lives in London, England, with her husband and three children.

Mary L. Johnson earned degrees in geochemistry from Caltech and mineralogy and crystallography from Harvard. She has performed research on sulfide minerals, high-pressure chemistry and physics, outer solar system processes, meteorites and the early solar system, and gemstones and their treatments. For 11 years she was West Coast Manager of Research for the Gemological Institute of America in Carlsbad, CA. She now owns her own scientific consulting firm.

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  • Posted February 9, 2009

    Must have for jewelry makers

    I found this book to be well written and very helpful. I design custom pieces of jewelry and wanted to be able to tell my clients more about where the stones may have come from. I love the book.

    5 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted February 23, 2009

    Excellent resource and reference

    This is a wonderful book for anyone intersting in gems.
    Whether a novice of seasoned professional this book will provide answers in a clear and concicse way. It is also excellent visually and a pleasant book to simply hold and peruse. As a seasoned jeweler, it is an easy to read book that goes back to basics.

    4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 16, 2009

    Extremely Helpful..

    This is a good book to reference when collecting gemstones. It has really good photos with a true to color of the gemstones and minerals for collectors to compare to what they have. Would have liked it better if it had a little more detail on some of the stones with a "what you need to know" to buy and better identify the stones, but worth the money when you need more understanding of the gemstones and where they come from and the ballpark figure of their value.

    3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 11, 2010

    Stunning Detail of Gems

    If you have ever wondered "what is this stone"...This book will probably tell you. Wether you are in the business or just someone who loves Gemstones, this book is a great find. The description brings the stones to life and the detail is amazing. Even stones you think you know, you will learn even more. The pictures are great and very clear. The book is informative without talking over your head or down to your toes. This book is a great reference book. You can learn how to handle stones you might have, the hardness of the stone is especially valuable to know.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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