Describes the history and uses of rubies, sapphires, emeralds, diamonds, pearls, jade, opal, garnet, and turquoise, and shows ancient and modern jewelry featuring each gem

Gems and Jewels: A Connoisseur's Guide

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Zucker, Benjamin

Antiques & Collectibles

Thames&Hudson

Original research sheds light on the fascinating biography of one of Yale University’s early supporters
Elihu Yale's name is famous for the great educational institution, Yale University, of which he was an early benefactor. He made his fortune in India, mostly through trading in diamonds. Arriving in Madras in 1672, through his outstanding abilities he rose through the hierarchy of the East India Company settlement from clerk to governor. When he returned to London in 1699 he brought with him Indian gems, furniture, and textiles, and proceeded to amass a collection of some ten thousand items, dispersed at seven auction sales after his death in 1721. The catalogs of these sales survive, providing information about the lively London art market. Hitherto neglected by historians, the Yale sales prove to be a landmark in the history both of collecting and of auctioning art in early 18th-century England.
The authors explore Elihu Yale’s life and interests, and then turn to a study of Yale as a dealer (particularly of gems) and a collector of diamonds and jewelry, works of art, furniture, books, and other objects―some of which are now at Yale University, and some in national collections around Britain. 140 illustrations

Elihu Yale: Merchant, Collector & Patron

Arts & Photography

SCARISBRICK, Diana

Business of Art

How to Invest in Gems

Blandford Press

How to invest in gems: Everyone's guide to buying rubies, sapphires, emeralds, and diamonds

Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co.

Modeled after the Talmud, this uniquely constructed novel introduces Abraham Tal, a New York diamond merchant who spends his days counseling friends and neighbors from his shop. A first novel.

Blue

Literature & Fiction

United States

The Overlook Press

A richly-textured novel, filled with paintings, illustrations, and photographs, details Abraham Tal, a New York gem merchant and advice-giver to his friends and neighbors in Greenwich Village, who has inherited a spectacular realm of voices, including Borges, Breton, Monet, and Melville - all of whom vie for his attention in order to dispense important information.

Green

Literary

Overlook Books

Gems and jewels have, since the beginning of civilization, been prized as symbols of wealth and social status or as objects endowed with magical or religious significance. This title reveals much of the history and mystique as well as giving technical advice on methods of grading and relative values of previous stones.

Abrams Press

A richly textured novel, filled with paintings, illustrations, and photographs, details Abraham Tal, a New York gem merchant and advice-giver to his friends and neighbors in Greenwich Village, who has inherited a spectacular realm of voices, including Borges, Breton, Monet, and Melville--all of whom vie for his attention in order to dispense important information. Reprint.

Talmudic in form, sui generis in conception, this novel completes the story of the Tal family, a New York City family in the gem business, begun in Blue and Green. The story is juxtaposed against marvelous images, among them paintings from Mary Cassatt and Vermeer and a collection of photographs, ranging from Bob Dylan in a recoding session, to the Wild West days, to moving works by Roman Vishniac. 
As one family's story unfolds with all the drama of a saga, numerous Tal relatives and no less than Bob Dylan, Soren Kierkegaard, Buffalo Bill, and dozens of others add perspective, humor, and gravitas with their views. An extraordinary novel that is deftly self-referential while at the same time pulling in cultural and historical references from the widest range of sources, White completes a work of literature that is a convergence of colors and voices.

White

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Gems and Jewels: A Connoisseur's Guide

Elihu Yale: Merchant, Collector & Patron

How to Invest in Gems

How to invest in gems: Everyone's guide to buying rubies, sapphires, emeralds, and diamonds

Blue

Green

Blue

Gems and Jewels: A Connoisseur's Guide

Green

White