The Story of the Gems: A Popular Handbook
by Whitlock, Herbert P
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn.
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Emerson Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn.. 1970. Later Printing. Hardcover. Black cloth with titles stamped in gilt on front boards and spine. Index, many photos and illustrations, bibliography. Owner name on front free endpaper, jacket rubbed. Contains multi-page descriptive table of gems. Two-page color frontispiece of popular gems. The curator of the renowned Morgan collection of gems at the American Museum of Natural History relates where gems are found, how they are cut, ancient and modern uses of gem stones, rarity and value and curious facts. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 206 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36963
- Title
- The Story of the Gems: A Popular Handbook
- Author
- Whitlock, Herbert P
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn.
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Publisher
- Emerson Books
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- Gemology, GEMS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science and Technology;
Terms of Sale
Old Saratoga Books
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About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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