Gems and Gem Minerals

by Oliver Cummings Farrington

$45 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

First edition

Chicago: A.W. Mumford, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 229pp. Green cloth with gold stamped lettering on cover and spine. Frontispiece color illustration of the twelve birthstones. 16 color plates plus 71 b/w half-tones photographs, line engravings, drawings, maps and tables illustrate this classic work on gemology. Thoroughly covers gem properties, such as color, luster, hardness, specific graviaty, optical,

• Binding: Hardcover

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