Paris: Assouline / Vendome, 2000. Hardcover. Gray paper boards, black & red & pictorial dust jacket, 208 pp., many color & BW illus., weighs 5.5 lbs. Tells the story of Indian "kings and their jewels, beginning with the rise of the magnificent Mughal empire in the fifteenth century and tracing..... More
Frankfurt am Main: Heinrich Keller, 1905. Softcover. Oversized gray wraps with black lettering; 12 pp; bw illustrations. Text is in German. Egyptian gold and silver jewelry. More
Fribourg, Switzerland: Arabesque Commercial, 1981. Hardcover. Green cloth over boards; Color pictorial dj.; 132 pp.; Profusely illustrated in color. A wonderfully illustrated (over a hundred photos) guide to Bedouin jewelry from the kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Extensive text. More
Pforzheim: Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, [1974]. Softcover. Black wraps with color illustrations. Grey cloth tape at spine. [160] with bw and color images throughout. Includes 1 bw map. Text in English. Catalogue of 152 works from the collection of Patti Cadby Birch. Each item well-annotated. From the exhibition held summer 1974. More
Milan, Italy: Skira, 2009. First ed. Hardcover. Black boards, no dj, 335 pp., profuse color illus. Published in association with an exhibition staged at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doja, Qatar, in 2010. Chapters are: The Nature and Formation oft he Pearl; Peral Molluscs; The Pearl, a History of..... More
Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 1969. Softcover. 2 titles in one Illustrated card wrap; each one 45 pp, illustrations. Text English and Hebrew. Catalog #58 of an exhibition held at the Israel Museum, April-July, 1969. More
Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana University Art Museum / Indiana University Press, 1995. Hardcover. green cloth w/ gilt printing. 332 pgs w/ bw & some color illustrations. Interior clean and bright. More
1986. Color wraps. 100 pp. 29 color plates. Includes price list. More
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1978. First Edition. Paperback. Beige and color-illustrated wraps, black lettering on spine. 100 pp. 8 color plates + numerous BW illustrations. Article entitled Sir John Evans and Charles Drury Fortnum: Two Victorian Ring Connoisseurs and Their Collections by Diana Scarisbrick. Published by Lund Humphries London for The..... More
