AN ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY OF JEWELRY - 2,530 entries, including definitions of jewels, gemstones, materials, processes, and styles, and entries on principal designers and makers, from antiquity to the present day
by NEWMAN, HAROLD
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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HAWTHORN EAST, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Thames & Hudson, London, 1981. 334 pp, large octavo, coloured photographic plates, b&w photographic illustrations, wrappers worn at corners, near fine copy in pictorial, limp wrappers.. First edition.
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- Bookseller
- Camberwell Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 227956
- Title
- AN ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY OF JEWELRY - 2,530 entries, including definitions of jewels, gemstones, materials, processes, and styles, and entries on principal designers and makers, from antiquity to the present day
- Author
- NEWMAN, HAROLD
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson, London, 1981
- Keywords
- jewelry jewellery jewels gems collecting collectibles history reference
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- Wrappers
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- Octavo
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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