Title Details

The first edition of this book was completely sold out in 2016, within two months after the release. Since then, the book has been reprinted two more times under other covers.

Well illustrated coffee table book about the precious gemstones. There are 44 gems fully described in this book. The total quantity of proffesional photos inside this book is about one thousand. About seven hundreed of them are exclusive, made by famouse Russian gemstone photographer A. Zhiltsov.
This book is about jemstones and jewelry. About history of jems and their mystical properties. About the prices and methods of evaluation.
Anyone who starts reading this book will definitely find something interesting in it.How birth stones appeared and why sapphire from the Bible and modern sapphire are completely different gems, all these questions will be answered in this book.
Can you cheat in a jewelry store and how to avoid such cheating. The book tells about this too.

The purpose of this book is to help the readers on their own to evaluate the colored gems (gems) and to avoid the confusing similarity at buying a piece of gem jewelry.
This book could give you the whole gems history, prices and methods of evaluation of the gems. There are 44 colored precious gems described in this book.