The Pinch Collection; Michael J. Bainbridge

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  

The Smale Collection II; Steve Smale & Jeffrey A. Scovil

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