BOOKS MINERALS

SHORT LIST

 

Bonewitz, Ronald, Rock and Gem: The Definitive Guide to Rocks, Minerals, Gemstones, and Fossils, DK; Reprint edition, 2008

 

Crowe, Judith, The Jeweler's Directory of Gemstones: A Complete Guide to Appraising and Using Precious Stones From Cut and Color to Shape and Settings, Firefly Books, 2012

 

DK Publishing Nature Guide Rocks and Minerals, DK, 2012

 

DK, Raden, Aja, Gem: The Definitive Visual Guide, DK, 2016

 

Farndon, John, Alec Livingstone, Illustrated Guide to Minerals of the World: The ultimate field guide and visual aid to 250 species and varieties, featuring in-depth profiles and 400 ... key mineral-forming environments of the world, Southwater, 2007

 

Farndon, John, The Complete Guide to Rocks and Minerals, HERMES HOUSE, 2006

 

Farndon, John, The Complete Illustrated Guide To Minerals, Rocks & Fossils Of The World: A comprehensive reference to 700 minerals, rocks, plants and animal fossils ... more than 2000 photographs and illustrations, Southwater, 2012

 

Farndon, John, The Illustrated Guide to Rocks & Minerals: How to find, identify and collect the world's most fascinating specimens, featuring over 800 stunning photographs and artworks, Southwater; ILL edition, 2012

 

Farndon, John, The Practical Encyclopedia of Rocks & Minerals: How To Find, Identify, Collect And Preserve The World'S Best Specimens, With Over 1000 Photographs And Artworks, Lorenz Books, 2015

 

Garlick, Sarah, National Geographic Pocket Guide to Rocks and Minerals of North America, National Geographic, 2014

 

Glazer, A. M., Crystallography: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions), Oxford University Press, 2016

 

Hall, Cally, Smithsonian Handbooks: Gemstones, DK; 2 edition, 2002

 

Hall, Judy, Encyclopedia of Crystals, Revised and Expanded, Fair Winds Press; Rev Exp edition, 2013

 

Hall, Judy, The Crystal Bible, Walking Stick Press, 2003

 

Lynch, Bob, Dan R. Lynch, Lake Superior Rocks and Minerals (Rocks & Minerals Identification Guides), Adventure Publications, 2008

 

Lynch, Dan R., Bob Lynch, Michigan Rocks & Minerals: A Field Guide to the Great Lake State (Rocks & Minerals Identification Guides), Adventure Publications, 2010

 

Matlins PG FGA, Antoinette, Bonanno FGA ASA MGA, Antonio C., Gem Identification Made Easy: A Hands-On Guide to More Confident Buying & Selling (6th Edition), GemStone Press; 6 edition, 2016

 

National Audubon Society, National Audubon Society Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals: North America (National Audubon Society Field Guides), Knopf, 1979

 

Pellant, Chris, Smithsonian Handbooks: Rocks & Minerals (Smithsonian Handbooks), DK, 2002

 

Polk, Patti, Collecting Collecting Rocks, Gems and Minerals: Identification, Values and Lapidary Uses, (Flexibound) Krause Publications; 3 edition, 2016

 

Pough, Frederick H., Roger Tory Peterson, A Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals (Peterson Field Guides), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 5 edition, 1998

 

Prinz, Martin, George Harlow, Simon & Schuster's Guide to Rocks & Minerals, Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1978

 

Sands, Donald E., Introduction to Crystallography (Dover Books on Chemistry), Dover Publications; Revised ed. Edition, 1994

 

Walker, David, Cyril;Ward, Smithsonian Handbooks: Fossils, Flexibound, DK; Revised edition, 2002

 

 

OTHERS

Bancroft, Peter, World's Finest Minerals and Crystals (A Studio book), Viking Press, 1973

Bardi, Ugo, Jorgen Randers (Foreword), Extracted: How the Quest for Mineral Wealth Is Plundering the Planet, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2014

Barker, Andrew J., A Key for Identification of Rock-Forming Minerals in Thin Section, CRC Press, 2014

Bök, Christian, Crystallography, Coach House Books, 1999

Duda, Rudolf, Minerals of the World, Gramercy, 1989

Grande, Lance and Allison Augustyn ; with photography by John Weinstein and Lance Grande, Gems and gemstones: timeless natural beauty of the mineral world, University Of Chicago Press, 2009

Harlow, George E., Anna S Sofianides, Gems & Crystals: From One of the Worlds Great Collections, Sterling Signature; Revised edition, 2015

Johnsen, Ole, Minerals of the World (Princeton Field Guides), Princeton University Press, 2002

Korbl, Petr, The Complete Encyclopedia of Minerals, Book Sales, 2002

Lembo, Margaret Ann, The Essential Guide to Crystals, Minerals and Stones, Llewellyn Publications, 2013

Pellant, Chris, The Complete Book of Rocks and Minerals, DK ADULT, 1995

Roberts, Willard Lincoln, George Robert Rapp Jr., Encyclopedia of Minerals, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1975

Schumann Dr., Walter, R. Bradshaw, Handbook of Rocks, Minerals, and Gemstones, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; X-Library - 6th edition, 1993

Sinkankas, John, Mineralogy, Springer, 1993

Vaughan, David, Minerals: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions), Oxford University Press, 2014