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    <title>Handbook of rocks, minerals, and gemstones</title>
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    <title>Neue BLV Steine- und Mineralienführer. English</title>
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    <title>Rocks, minerals &amp; gemstones</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Schumann, Walter</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1926-</namePart>
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    <namePart>Bradshaw, R.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Mills, K.A.G.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Houghton Mifflin Company</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c1993</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">1993</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>380 pages : illustrations (some color), tables ; 20 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>Contains descriptions and photographs of approximately six hundred minerals, rocks, and meteorites, providing information about the history, origin, structure, composition, properties, classification, and location of each specimen</abstract>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Walter Schumann ; translated by R. Bradshaw and K.A.G. Mills.</note>
  <note>Spine title: Rocks, minerals &amp; gemstones</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. 340-341) and index.</note>
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    <topic>Rocks</topic>
    <topic>Identification</topic>
    <topic>Handbooks, manuals, etc</topic>
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    <topic>Minerals</topic>
    <topic>Identification</topic>
    <topic>Handbooks, manuals, etc</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Precious stones</topic>
    <topic>Identification</topic>
    <topic>Handbooks, manuals, etc</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Mineralogía determinativa</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Paleontología</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Rocas</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">QE 433.8 S392h 1993</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc">549.1</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780395511374</identifier>
  <identifier type="isbn">0395511372</identifier>
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