Civilisations du Soleil: Chefs-d'Oeuvre du Musee de l'Or de Bogota
Toulouse: Musee des Augustins, 1996. Softcover. Blue illus. wraps; 158 pp. with numerous color plates. text in French. More
Jewelry - American
Clementina Duarte: 25 Anos de Joia Moderna Brasileira = 25 Years of Brazilian Modern Jewelry
Lisbon, Portugal: Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, 1990. Softcover. Black & illus. wraps, 208 pp., many BW & color illus. Text is predominantly in Portuguese. 6 pieces introduce Duarte's life and work. 2 are translated into French as well; 3 others are translated into English. Contributors are Jose Sommer Ribeiro, Oscar Niemeyer..... More
Southwest Silver Jewelry: The First Century
Atglen, PA: Schiffer Pub. 2001. Hardcover. Black boards with color photograph. Black dj with color photograph. 208 pages : illustrations (some color). Contents: Learning from jewelry : a century of influential jewelry-making -- The 1860s : metal of the moon -- The 1870s and 1880s : the early years of..... More
Classification and Nomenclature of Beads and Pendants
York, PA: George Shumway, 1981. Softcover. Yellow wraps with brown lettering and illustrations, illustrated end pages of bead charts, 76 pp, illustrated throughout. 2000 copies of this edition printed in 1981. Includes article by Flora Westlake originally published in The Bead Journal, Volume 2, Number 4, Spring 1976. More
Through one hundred years ...The Hundredth Anniversary of the Oldest Retail Jewelry House in New York, Together With Some Facts as to its Different Departments
New York: 1910. Hardcover. Decorative gold weave over cloth boards with red title block and gilt lettering. 40 pgs. illustrations. Fourteen mounted color illustrations of some of their products: watches, brooches, necklaces, watches, silverware, vases, pearls, etc., More
The Jewelry of Margaret De Patta: A Retrospective Exhibition
Oakland, California: The Oakland Museum, 1976. Softcover. Tan embossed wraps. 72 pp., 28 BW plates, 4 color plates. Issued in conjunction with a 1976 exhibition of jewelry crafted by Margaret De Patta (1903-1964). The exhibit took place February 3-March 28, 1976, Oakes Gallery - The Oakland Museum. With essays by..... More
The Museum, New Series, Volume 19, No. 1: Ancient and Exotic Jewelry in the Museum's Collection
Newark, NJ: The Newark Museum, 1967. Paperback. White stapled wraps with BW illustration. 32 pp. 33 BW figures. The Museum: New Series, published by The Newark Museum in Winter 1967. Essay ("Ancient and Exotic Jewelry...") by the author. More
The Jewels of Miriam Haskell
Woodbridge, Suffolk, England: Antique Collectors' Club, 1997. Hardcover. Taupe boards. White, color-illus. dj with maroon lettering. 207 pp. with mostly color illus. throughout. "This is the first book to tell the story of Miriam Haskell the person and Miriam Haskell the prestigious house of costume jewellery. [Haskell's] genius lay not..... More
Jewelry international: the original annual of the world's finest jewelry
New York: Tourbillon International, 2008. Hardcover. Black cloth with gilt title-embossed cover and spine. Color pictorial glossy dustjacket. 446 pp., more glossy color plates than you can shake a stick at. The premier volume of this luscious publication. In the modern world, a few elite designers have combined an intimate..... More
Jean Schlumberger : the Rachel Lambert Mellon collection from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Richmond, Virginia: VMFA, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2018. Hardcover. Illustrated board covers. (xi), 106 pages : illustrations (some color). "Exhibition curated by Kristie Couser and Dr. Mitchell Merling, Paul Mellon Curator and Head of the Department of European Art, VMFA."/ Includes bibliographical references. Famous for his inventive interpretations of..... More
Adornment: The Art of Barbara Natoli Witt
Manchester, Vt. Hudson Hills Press, 2011. Hardcover. Blue cloth, black & illus. dust jacket, 162 pp., illus., chieflty in color. "Using a combination of tapestry, and lace-making techniques- Barbara Natoli Witt's necklaces are stunning intricate webs of ancient beads, colored threads, artifacts and gem stones from Asia, Africa, the Americas..... More
Infinite Riches: Jewelry Through the Centuries
St. Petersburg, FL: Museum of Fine Arts, 1989. Softcover. White and color illustrated wraps with red lettering, vi, 80 pp. 10 color plates, 257 bw illus. Text by Cynthia Duval. Includes essay and descriptively annotated illustrations. FL: Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, February 19 to April 30, 1989... More
Bijoux: Los Anos Gloriosos: Coleccion Barbara Berger
Mexico D.F. Americo Arte Editores, 2000. Hardcover. Fuschia boards with purple and gold lettering. 139 pp. Color illustrations. Text in Spanish and English. More
American Luxury: Jewels From The House Of Tiffany
Woodbridge, England: Antique Collectors Club, 2009. Hardcover. black boards w/ gilt printing. illustrated pastedowns & flyleafs. 207 pgs w/ color & bw illustrations. glossy, pictorial dustjacket. Pages clean, plates bright. A wonderfully illustrated history of the luxury retailer. More
Indian Jewelry of the Southwest, 1868-1930
West Chester, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 1990. Softcover. White softcover with color-illustration and red and black lettering, ix, 214 pp. BW and color illustrations. "This splendidly illustrated book celebrates the historic silver and turquoise jewelry of the Navajo and Pueblo Indians. It presents for the first time over 300 superb objects..... More
American and European Jewelry, 1830 - 1914
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1975. Hardcover. Blue cloth, off-white ill. DJ. 240 pp. 64 color plates, 150 bw ills. Survey of jewelry, makers and designers from the French Revolution to the American commercial industry. More
Robert Lee Morris: MetalMania
New York: Robert Lee Morris / Fashion Insitute Of Technology, 1996. Pamphlet. thick, silver vellum wrap w/ dark silver printing; replica artist signature. two loose 8x11 sheets, four color illustrated fold-outs. Loose sheets consist of silver vellum foreward by Dorothy Twining Globus and a black 'Acknowledgements' page. The four fold-outs..... More
Völkerschmuck. Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des metallischen Schmuckes. Nebst Einführungen und Erläuterungen von Dr. Mich. Haberlandt, Kustos am K.k. Naturhistorischen Hof-Museum in Wien. (Die Quelle.Mape VII.)
Wien: Gerlach & Wiedling, [1906]. Hardbound. Brown library buckram. 22 pp followed by 109 stiff sheets. About 2000 examples of Folk Jewelry from around the world are shown here, all drawn from the museum collection in Vienna. Contents are entirely in German, text is concentrated in the first 22 pages..... More
Cycles of Life: Rings from the Benjamin Zucker Family Collection
London: Les Enluminures, 2014. Softcover. Black wraps with glossy black illustrations, white and tan lettering; French flaps. 267 pp. An abundance of color illustrations. An unparalleled collection of rings dating from the 3rd to the 19th century, presenting not chronology but rather grouped into timeless themes - birth, love, betrothal..... More
From Slave to Siren: The Victorian Woman and Her Jewelry from Neoclassic to Art Nouveau
Durham, North Carolina: The Duke University Museum of Art, 1971. Softcover. White and color-illustrated wraps, aqua lettering on spine. xi; 111 pp. + 25 color plates & 183 BW illus. Showcases jewelry from the past several centuries, up through examples of French, Belgian, Austrian, German, Russian, American and English Art..... More
The Turquoise Trail: Native American Jewelry and Culture of the Southwest
New York: Abrams, 1993. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with silver illustration and lettering; colorful photo-illustrated DJ with light grey lettering; 215 pp.; richly illustrated. "Carol Karasik's text, a narrative journey that crosses time and space, describes the landscape of the ancient turquoise trade routes and affirms the inextinguishable vitality of..... More
Jewelry By Artists: In The Studio, 1940-2000. Selections From The Daphne Farago Collection
Boston: Museum Of Fine Arts Boston, 2010. Hardcover. grey cloth boards. 312 pgs w/ illustration. grey pictorial dustjacket. Showcases studio jewelry made in the twentieth century, with profiles of the artists who made them and discussions about how different time periods, popular culture, and developments in techniques and materials shaped..... More
Variations on a Theme: 25 Years of Designs from the AJDC
Hermitage, PA: American Jewelry Design Council, 2014. Paperback. Color-illustrated softcover with white lettering. 82 pp. Color illustrations. Catalog of an exhibition held Sept. 21, 2013-Feb. 22, 2014 at the Forbes Galleries, New York. Signed on title page in ink by AJDC Exhibitions Chair. More
Louis Comfort Tiffany At Tiffany & Co
New York: Abrams, 2002. Hardcover. red cloth boards w/ gilt spine printing. illustrated pastedowns & endpapers. 255 pgs w/ color illustrations, plates. glossy black & blue illustrated dustjacket. "More than 350 illustrations, most in color, accompany a close-up look at the seminal influence of Louis Comfort Tiffany on his father's..... More
Tiffany Diamonds
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2005. Hardcover. Blue & color pictorial boards, matching dust jacket, matching flyleaves, 304 pp., 250 color illus. "Recounts intriguing and often mysterious tales of the world's famous diamonds -- the Koh-i-noor, the Regent, the Sancy, and many more -- and [the] anecdotes about the illustrious..... More