A tribute to the history, life and work of Idar-Oberstein carver Gerd Dreher and his talented family, this book of limited edition is intended as to accompany a exhibition of Dreher carvings at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
Drawings from numerous references and many hours of interviews, this volume chronicles Gerd's journey from apprentice to master, placing his work and that of his family in cultural context. This outsized volume, extravagantly illustrated with Scovil photos, is a celebration of the life and work of Gerd Dreher and his family's hardstone carving dynasty.
368 pages, hundreds of color photographs, in English, 29,5 x 35,5 cm, Hardcover, 2022.
One of the most influential mineral collectors of our time, William W. Pinch brought leadership, context, and connoisseurship to the intellectually elite craft of species collecting. His first collection set lasting standards for the genre before selling in 1989 to the Canadian Museum of Nature for a record-setting 3.5 million US dollars. That collection and the enigmatic Pinch are the subject of this highly anticipated volume, superbly narrated and illustrated by photographer and storyteller Michael Bainbridge, who spent hundreds of hours working with the collection and interviewing Pinch, his family, friends, and contemporaries.
288 pages, Hardcover, 31 x 26,5 cm, in English, 2020
A lifetime of travel and collaboration has blessed renowned mathematician Steve Smale with access to great minerals often just as the parts of the globe he happened to find himself on were at their peaks, specimen-wise. A follow up to his first book, The Smale Collection II reflects the professor's lifetime of travels and the cultivation of his refined aesthetic. The book showcases selections from his collection many of which were featured in his perennial page in The Mineralogical Record as well as pieces from his Chinese Virtual Museum and a few dozen favorites. Coupling state-of-the art print technology and Scovil photos, this book serves up eye candy so vivid you can taste it.
176 pages, Hardcover, 30 x 25 cm, in English, 2021
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Steckbrief Leukophosphit
Rupert Hochleitner und Stefan Weiß
Zirkone aus der Eifel
Eddy Van Der Meersche und Stefan Weiß
Neufunde aus Böhmen und Mähren
Marcel Vanek; Zdenek Hanzl, Hela & Vasek Medunovi
Regenbogengranat aus Westafrika
Stefan Weiß und Klaus Schäfer
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