Collector Bookstore
724 Delaware Street
Leavenworth, KS 66048
Collector Bookstore is a leading specialty retailer of price guides and reference books to inform and educate collectors and professionals in the antiques and collectors markets. Our customers include individual collectors, dealers, appraisers, auctioneers & other industry professionals. You won't receive heavily thumbed shelf copies from us! We buy most titles directly from the publisher and individual authors. Authors are encouraged to submit their reference titles for our consideration.
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Collector's Guide to Silicates Orthosilicates by: Robert J. Lauf
ISBN:
9780764352867
Book Title:
Collector's Guide to Silicates Orthosilicates
Author:
Robert J. Lauf
Binding:
Hard Cover
Copyright:
2017
Pages:
240
Size:
8.75 x 11.25 in.
Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry.
The definitive resource for mineral collectors, this comprehensive book describes the structural relationships among orthosilicateminerals, known for their hardness and brilliant colors, and the geological conditions that create prized specimens. It is illustrated with nearly 500 structure diagrams, color photos, and electron micrographs that will help collectors appreciate the minerals already in their collection, build a collection with greater depth, and find additional information. A web link allows readers to view the crystal structuresin three dimensions for a richer appreciation of their details, and an extensive bibliography includes easily accessible references ranging from foundational literature to reports on current scientific research.
450 color and 17 b/w
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Topaz: Perfect Cleavage, Min. Mono. No. 14, 2011, New!
Published by Lithographie with contributions by Dudley Blauwet, Dave Bunk, Ryan Bowling, Jaroslav Hyrsl, H. Albert Gilg, Alfredo Petrov, John Rakovan, Rainrer Thomas, William B. Simmons, George Rossman. Edited by Gloria Staebler, Sarah Hansen, Sue Liebetrau, Janet Clifford. Illustrations by: Jeff Scovil, Robert Weldon, Ryan Bowling
From the publisher: With fifteen articles devoted to the subject, coverage of the gem is unparalleled by another publication. Localities are featured in nine of the articles, ranging in size from the two page feature on St. Anne s Mine in Zimbabwe, to the multi-page treatments done on Pakistan, Japan, Colorado, Russia, Mongolia among others. The locality articles feature stunning photographs, colorful maps, crystal models and locality photos, made all even more spectacular on the large format pages. Jeff Scovil's photography fills the majority of the book, something everyone can be happy about.
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