📚 Gems

Books with gems on their catalogue record, first published between 1865 and 2014, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject gems in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,660 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The curious lore of precious stones	George Frederick Kunz	1913	22
	Eyewitness crystal & gem	R. F. Symes	1991	22
	Modes and manners	Max von Boehn	1929	18
	Gems	Robert Webster	1962	14
	The book of talismans, amulets and zodiacal gems	William Thomas Pavitt	1914	13
	Gem cutting	John Sinkankas	1955	12
	Natal stones	George Frederick Kunz	1892	11
	Diamonds and precious stones	Harry Emanuel	1865	10
	The art of gem cutting, complete	H. C. Dake	1945	9
	Gemmologists' pocket compendium	Robert Webster	1947	9
	Rock and gem	Ra Bonewitz	2005	8
	Science of gems, jewels, coins and medals, ancient and modern.	Archibald Billing	2014	8
	The Magic And Science Of Jewels And Stones	Isidore Kozminsky	1922	7
	Jewelry, gem cutting, and metalcraft	William Thomas Baxter	1942	6
	Van Nostrand's standard catalog of gems	John Sinkankas	1968	6
	The gem kingdom	Paul E. Desautels	1970	6
	Gems and jewelry	Joel E. Arem	1975	6
	Gemmology	Peter G. Read	1991	6
	Gemcraft	Lelande Quick	1959	5
	Gem identification made easy	Antoinette Leonard Matlins	1989	5
	Gemstones	Cally Hall	1994	5
	Gemmology	Peter Read	2012	5
	Handbook of Engraved Gems	Charles William King	1866	4
	A Manual of Precious Stones and Antique Gems	Hodder Michael Westropp	1874	4
	The world of jewel stones	Weinstein, Michael.	1958	4
	Cunningham's encyclopedia of crystal, gem & metal magic	Scott Cunningham	1988	4
	Gemstones	Cally Hall	1994	4
	Collecting Gems and Minerals (Collecting)	Chris Pellant	1997	4
	Magical jewels of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, particularly in England	Joan Evans	1922	3
	Archaic Greek gems	John Boardman	1968	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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