Lithographie Ltd

05/31/2026

Call for Photos: Southern Illinois Specimens

Ross Lillie's long awaited book on the companies, mines, and minerals that made southern Illinois one of the most important 20th century sources for collectable specimens is in the works. We are illustrating the book now and will be working on it through the fall. We'd like to include as many collectors and photographers as we can; so ... If you have professional-quality photos of specimens, particularly of smaller sized specimens from lesser known localities in the district, we are very interested in including them in our galleries. Please forward your fully-captioned (species, locality, size, photographer, specimen owner, and provenance if known) images at native resolution to us at infolitho at gmail.

Sadly, we are not equipped to review images for potential photography nor are we able to accept images that do not include full caption info (we can't place something and later fill in the caption data) or that are not at native resolution. We don't work with heavily processed images and hardly check DMs, so please email us at the address above. ✌️

Sample photo: Calcite on Fluorite, 9.4 cm wide
Denton Mine, Hardin County, Illinois
Don and Gloria Olson collection, Jeff Scovil photo

04/23/2026

We’re headed to the Sinkankas Symposium and are bring Billie and Richard Hughes inclusions book “Inside Out.” We’ve never carried this outsized volume as quantities were limited. We did, however, store copies for the Hughes family, and I’ll be bringing these to the Symposium, where Richard is slated to be a speaker. Attendees can buy the books from him (cash only please) at a very special price, and can get them signed, though unfortunately not by the first author Billie, who is not expected to be in attendance. We’ll make any remaining copies available beginning Sunday.

If you will not be at the symposium and would like to get on the list for a (signed?) copy of Inside Out or the very last Ruby & Sapphire Collector’s Guide, please email us at infolitho at gmail. 🫶

03/29/2026

Our 50-state notecard project.

03/29/2026

Slocum or Gillette? Which image should be the face of Connecticut in our 50 state notecard series?

03/27/2026

There’s still time to register for the 20th Sinkankas Symposium, which will put a spotlight on Burma. If you’ve never attended this one day event, you are in for a treat. The speakers are always remarkable, as are the displays. The box lunch is an excuse to enjoy the California sunshine and some social time, and one time someone said the best part is that Lithographie and a few others sell books during breaks in the action! That’s actually not the best part, but we will be there with new stock and some used books. We’ll be happy to bring over anything that you might want to take a look at, just say the word.

Sign up below and see you there!✌️

The theme of the Sinkankas Symposium each year highlights a different gemstone or gem-producing region for which speakers present talks on a wide range of topics, including history and lore, mineralogy and crystallography, color science, inclusions, sources and deposits, carving and cutting, and pho...

02/14/2026

The show is winding down and due to some crossed signals, we actually have a few copies left of both China and Quartz! We are not listing them as in stock on the website, as we don’t want to oversell, but if you’re interested in scoring a copy to be shipped next week, email us at infolitho at gmail. ✌️🌵

02/12/2026

10 copies incoming of the new book “Sciacca Coral: Story, Seduction and Sustainability” by Enzo Liverino. We have to be honest, we’re getting 11 copies in but had to add a copy to our own library, as we still don’t know for sure which exemplary material from Sicily was originally given the name “Agate.” Perhaps this book will rule gem coral out as a candidate, but it might perhaps keep it in the running. Whether or not it was the original agate, Sciacca Coral is fabulous!

Hardcover, 96 pages, $65

02/09/2026

A gorgeous blast from the past, we scored a pile of the hardcover and highly sought “The Kalahari Manganese Field.” We bought more than 200 copies, so there’s no great rush, but don’t put off adding a copy to your library for too long. When this last batch is gone, you will be hard pressed to find a copy of this spectacular volume for such a price ($65 plus shipping).

https://www.lithographie.org/bookshop/the_kalahari_manganese_field.htm

02/03/2026

Super excited to be carrying Vincent Pardieu’s first book! Find us in Tucson at the AGTA (Booth #1) or Mineral City (A4). If you order your copy this week, we can probably get it signed for you!!

https://www.lithographie.org/bookshop/rubies_from_greenland.htm

01/25/2026

Nice shot, László!!

A lovely, classic association of tetrahedrite on manganoan calcite from the Cavnic mine, Baia Mare mining district, Maramureș County, Romania.
Sharp, well-defined tetrahedral crystals of tetrahedrite are perfectly perched on a contrasting matrix of pale pink manganoan calcite. The tetrahedrite displays complex intergrowths. 30x27x20mm - in my collection (Ex- Gabor Koller specimen)