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Le diamant: mythe - magie - réalité
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ISBN: 2082014541 Year: 1979 Publisher: Paris Flammarion


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L'Encyclopédie : Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques, avec leur explication. [18], Orfèvrerie, joaillerie
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ISBN: 2905388471 Year: 1986 Publisher: Paris : Inter-Livres,


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Brilliant effects : a cultural history of gem stones and jewellery
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ISBN: 9780300142785 Year: 2009 Publisher: New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press

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Ranging from precious stones as raw wealth to the symbolic properties of gems whether in Antiquity and the Bible or in Victorian art and literature, this book examines how small-scale and valuable artefacts have figured in systems of belief and in political and social practice in Europe since the Renaissance.

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