MCIVER, J.R. - Gems Minerals and Rocks of Southern Africa - (Hardcover in Wrapper)

Purnell - 1966 1st Edition - Hardbound - about 10 inches tall - 268 pages. Glossary, index. Description: Tipped-in color frontis; 80 black and white photographs, and 40 color plates. Also includes sixteen maps, one of them is a color plate, and four are fold-out maps. From the jacket blurb: ''While scientific in its approach, this work is primarily for the layman, covering as it does, all that he may wish to know about the subject. Chapters include mineral collecting, general geology, minerals and features which help to identify them, tables for identification, chemical tests, crystals and cutting and polishing. The author is a leading university lecturer in mineralogy and he devotes much of his time to practical work in the field.'' BINDING/CONDITION: blue cloth with gilt text, a handsome volume in Very Good+ condition, with a Very Good dust jacket; - neat gift message in front.

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