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IMPORTANT WORK ON JEWELRY POUGET, JEAN HENRI PROSPER. Traité des Pierres Précieuses et de la manière de les employer en Parure. Engraved title and
IMPORTANT WORK ON JEWELRY POUGET, JEAN HENRI PROSPER. Traité des Pierres Précieuses et de la manière de les employer en Parure. Engraved title and 79 engraved plates. [2], 90, 80 pages. 4to, modern sheep with gilt borders, spine, and turn-ins, burgundy morocco spine label; endpapers renewed, owner's initial "G" and 1763 written in ink on lower margin of title, contemporary ownership inscription on verso of last plate; custom cloth folding box with gilt-lettered leather spine label. Paris: chez l'Auteur, 1762
- Notes: "An extremely important work which is esteemed for its accurate statement of everyday knowledge possessed by jewelers and experts in gems in France of the 18th century but perhaps even more highly valued for its many hundreds of carefully drawn and engraved jewelry designs which appear upon the plates"--Sinkankas 5231; Brunet IV, 848.
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