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Product Description: Gem and Stone celebrates 50 different gems ranging from timeless classics like diamond and emerald to exotic beauties such as lapis lazuli, peridot, and even petrified wood. Altman's photographs capture the splendor of each gem alongside brief text highlighting the stones' chemical makeups, metaphysical properties, and associated folklore throughout human history...read more
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9781452109077 | Chronicle Books Llc, September 5, 2012, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Gem and Stone celebrates 50 different gems ranging from timeless classics like diamond and emerald to exotic beauties such as lapis lazuli, peridot, and even petrified wood.
Paperback:
9781554070541 | Firefly Books Ltd, February 28, 2005, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A guide to more than six hundred specimens includes detailed descriptions and illustrations.
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9780198515685 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 2002, cover price $29.95
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9781859749395 | New Holland Pub Ltd, February 1, 2002, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Provides photographs of more than 220 varieties of minerals, rocks, and fossils.
Product Description: Pages of full-color photos identify mineral formations as common as iron and sulfur and as precious as diamonds and rubies. Minerals are shown as they occur both in natural deposits and in their cut-and-polished states. Readers get an overview of mineral sources, gem cutting, imitation gems, metals and metal working, and much more...read more
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9780756766900 | Diane Pub Co, February 1, 2001, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Pages of full-color photos identify mineral formations as common as iron and sulfur and as precious as diamonds and rubies.
9780764152184 | Barrons Educational Series Inc, May 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Color photographs and accompanying text identify mineral formations, showing them in their natural states as well as cut and polished, and covering fossils, archaeological sites, mining, gem cutting, metals and metalworking.
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9780540074297 | New edition (Gardners Books, October 11, 1999), cover price $16.10 | About this edition: The encyclopaedia contains more than 13,000 A-Z entries, colour illustrations, 150 special box features and 200 individual country features.
Paperback:
9781560442684 | Falcon Pr Pub Co, April 1, 1994, cover price $19.95
Hardcover:
9781555210939 | Reissue edition (Book Sales, December 1, 1992), cover price $9.98 | About this edition: Compiles information on the physical and chemical properties of 512 minerals and more than 50 precious stones and rocks
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9780805011180 | Henry Holt & Co, August 1, 1989, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Describes the appearance, formation, and structure of hundreds of specimens
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9780701123628 | Chatto & Windus, September 1, 1979, cover price $5.95
Line drawings and color photographs enhance a field guide that describes the appearance, formation, and structure of hundreds of specimens
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9780883320792 | Larousse & Co, September 1, 1977, cover price $4.98 | About this edition: Line drawings and color photographs enhance a field guide that describes the appearance, formation, and structure of hundreds of specimens
Paperback:
9780883320785 | Larousse & Co, September 1, 1977, cover price $2.98 | About this edition: Line drawings and color photographs enhance a field guide that describes the appearance, formation, and structure of hundreds of specimens
Vivid photographs supplement practical data on the characteristics and collection of rock and mineral specimens
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9780448115405 | Grosset & Dunlap, September 1, 1974, cover price $3.98 | About this edition: Vivid photographs supplement practical data on the characteristics and collection of rock and mineral specimens
Provides information on the physical properties, crystal system, and chemical composition of common minerals
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9780806930404 | Sterling Pub Co Inc, June 1, 1971, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Provides information on the physical properties, crystal system, and chemical composition of common minerals
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