About the product:

📚 Name/ Type: Book - Minerals – The Enthusiasts' Guide

🙌 Author/ Publisher: Julien Lebocey at Les editions du Piat

🌍 Origin: France

📝 Language: French

📐 Dimensions: 17.5 × 24.5 × 4.5 centimeters

⚖️ Weight: 2800 grams

📦 Packaging: Individually - Wrapped in paper

🎁 Ideal for gifting or treating yourself!

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Summary:

Let the mineral collector or the naturally curious be reassured! They finally hold in their hands a relevant and practical guide to identify the different species they are likely to discover themselves in the field or admire in museums, numerous fairs, and exhibitions.

At a time when it is difficult to sift through so much data on the web, not always serious and, let's say, sometimes very far from Science, here is a modern and rigorous book that offers much more than the works distributed so far in France, often too outdated despite the advances in Mineralogy, or that are simple translations and adaptations of foreign works, without any real perspective on the riches of our beautiful country.

Avoiding the recycling of dusty data, Julien Lebocey, editor for the magazine "Le Règne Minéral", has boldly compiled information acquired during his journalistic work, with the team of this French mineralogy magazine - created in 1995 - intended for both the general public and researchers and geologists.

The result is a true update with a large amount of new data, accumulated over several decades and absent from current works that sit on the shelves of most stores.

This guide has over 600 pages illustrated by the best specialists in the field, with more than 2,000 images (!), and nearly 290 minerals are described with their main foreign deposits and paragraphs dedicated to French localities.

This guide is now the reference in the field! The author gives a true meaning to the principle of Collection, even restoring its nobility, because without Collection, both the amateur and the scholar could not discover a new species, make observations, preserve, and transmit...