Jewellery - 23rd October 2014
Lot 1395
Kunz
Estimate £1,000 - £2,000
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Description
Kunz, George Frederick and Charles Hugh Stevenson. The Book of the Pearl, The History, Art, Science, and Industry of the Queen of Gems. New York, The Century Co, 1908, large octavo. Original gilt stamped green buckram cloth with gilt top edge, others deckle edged, colour frontispiece of Tsarina Alexandra with tissue guard, many plates, some colour, maps, minor foxing to free endpapers. Bookplate of Eben Mac Burney Byers.