Gems - Their Sources, Descriptions and Identification WEBSTER, Robert

Gems - Their Sources, Descriptions and Identification

WEBSTER, Robert

Butterworth & Co (Publishers) Ltd., London, 1970, hardback with dust wrapper, VG/vg, boards black with gilt decoration and decorative blue/gilt spine label (see scans), black/gilt end bands, colour frontispiece in addition to 22 colour plates numerous b/w photographs and line drawings in the text, 838 pp.

Boards clean and firm, bumps to fore-edge corners, smattering of pale marks to rear, neat inscription on front free end paper, no annotations, sound tight binding, pages clean and bright, edges of text block lightly dust stained. Moderate shelf wear to wrapper (see scans), edge worn, grubby in some areas, 0.5cm closed tear to spine head, price clipped.

SCIENCE, GEOLOGY, GEMSTONES, ORIGINS, RECOVERY, TYPES, PHYSICAL, CHEMICAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES, IDENTIFYING TRUE GEMS AND IMITATIONS, CUTTING, POLISHING, MARKETING

46691 SCI/GEOLOGY £33.00