Description: By looking at various catalogs, there appear to be several editions or printings of this book, by the same two authors, under several similar titles, but having the same number of pages (296), and often (when mentioned) approximately the same number of photographs. My copy was published in 1999 by Rebo Productions, but may well be the very same as the others.This is not really a textbook (one cannot use this to identify specimens), nor a full encyclopedia, as the species descriptions are brief. Includes many species, including some of the scarcer ones. The flyleaf says "over 600 mineral species and varieties, illustrated with about 750 color photographs" and an attempted count verifies that count; there are on the average from 2 to 3 color photographs on each page. These photographs are of macro mineral specimens (a few are of slightly micro specimens, crystals of the 1-5 mm range), and these photographs (at least in my copy, which is of glossy paper) are excellent, possibly the best that I have seen of such minerals in any publication, rivalling those of the periodical Mineralogical Record. Some of the photos are by J. Scovil, and the others are of equal quality. Captions of photos are not always very precise, although usually good enough.Species arranged (in my edition) chemically, but there is an index; although in my edition only the A and B sections were translated from the Czech, most species names of minerals are close enough for this not to matter, and the index is quite useable, with the possible exception of quartz (an old mineral with its own name in various languages), but if one looks in the index under Agate, one can soon find it in the Oxides chapter.Although, as a mineralogist (as I have sometimes been described) I buy few "coffee-table" books of photographs, and I am not sure whether this actually could fit into such a designation, this "Minerals Encyclopaedia" (as it is spelled in the edition I have) has such excellent color photographs that it is fully worth it for the photos alone. If all the printings are of this quality, and if you like the photos in Mineralogical Record, then you will probably like these also.
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Publication Year: 1999
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Book Title: Minerals Encyclopedia
Author: Peter Korbel
Topic: mineraIs
