Knowledge is power. The more you know about a particular subject, the more you will be able to comment on them. If you are obsessed with gemstones but don't understand much about them, a great way to gain more knowledge is through gemstone books.
To help you choose, we've selected some interesting titles to have on your bookshelf at home. Check them out and choose the ones that are most like you.
Minerals and gemstones from Brazil
Written by the authors Carlos Cornejo and Andrea Bartoreli, it talks about the historical panorama of the production of precious stones in Brazilian lands.
It also talks about the main precious stones since the beginning in Brazil, about mineralogy, its researchers and also about the private collection of jewels used by the court and the imperial family. Here you will see a little about some samples found in our country like the emerald, tourmaline, grenade and others.
Guide to Precious Stones
Roger Harding and Christine Woodward's book describes the main gemstones used around the world since the beginning. To write this book, the authors took as a basis the very rich collection of the Geological Museum in London.
In this book you will find the main properties of stones such as formation, location, extraction, nature and other mineral properties. You will also find out how the cutting and polishing processes take place and the most common ways of falsificação that exists.
Precious Stones in Brazil
The book was released in 2011, it is by Fábio Lamachia and it is possible to find it in both English and Portuguese versions. To produce this book, the author visited the most remote places looking for gold mines. There were 11 months of research and more than 25 kilometers across Brazil.
he talks about diamonds, marine waters, emeralds and other precious stones and the whole process that involves the extraction of these stones in remote places and that involves thousands of lives and stories.
Gems of the World by Walter Schumann
With the original title of Edelsteine and Schumucksteine, Walter Schumann's book can be found in Portuguese. It was launched in 2006 and is already in its 9th edition. The book is basically composed of rich and vivid images of more than 1.400 species of precious stones.
Some of them are shown in 3 phases: rough, polished and polished. It is also possible to find some informative sessions such as, for example, how to know a gem by its color, organic gems, which stone is related to people's birth and much more!
Precious Stones and Their Properties by Ana Patrícia Vieira Ferreira
Many people may have heard about the power of stones used in therapies. In this book, Ana Patrícia Vieira Ferreira discusses the properties of each stone so that you can identify which one best matches your personality. The reading is very light and the book has only 71 pages.
Gems and Precious Stones
This book by Ronald Louis Bonewitz is a kind of guide containing the description of more than 400 types of gems, precious metals and stones. In the book you will find out about the formation, the physical and optical properties of the stones, their classification and also the way of polishing each one. It is an illustrated guide that contains the precious stones in jewelry and also in art objects.
Having books on gemstones always close at hand can be a great help when making the right choice. Also, these books can help you learn more about the stones you already have and even learn how to use them in different ways.
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I loved it, I would like to purchase the books on where to find and how to identify the stones
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