Gemstone Buying Guide: How to Evaluate, Identify, Select and Care for Colored Gems »

Written for both consumers and professionals, this guide gives pointers on how to buy gemstones, with advice on price comparison, quality evaluation, fake stones, gem treatments, and gem cleaning and care. This second edition includes 121 additional color photos, bringing the total of photos to 281. There is also a new section on optical effects. Newman is a gemologist. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Anglic Gemcutter

"Far more than a buying guide, it is one of the finest collections of gem photographs I've ever seen. The amount of work in this book is to be believed only by holding it in your hands. It's a beautiful gem-pictorial reference and a help to everyone in viewing colored stones as a gemologist or gem dealer would. If you see the book, you will probably purchase it on the spot."