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Rings for the finger; from the earliest known times to the present, with full descriptions of the origin, early making, materials, the archaeology, history, for affection, for love, for engagement, for wedding, commemorative, mourning, etc.
LIBRA - Special GT2270 .K86 1973
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kunz, George Frederick, 1856-1932.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rings.
- Rings--Religious aspects.
- Rings--Folklore.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 381 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dover Publications, [1973]
- Summary:
- Wealth of material on rings: the fabled ring of Prometheus, the poison-bearing rings of the Borgias, Solomon's ring, maxims and aphorisms, archeological finds, religious uses, healing, methods of ring making. 290 illustrations.
- Notes:
- Reprint of the ed. published by Lippincott, Philadelphia.
- ISBN:
- 0486222268
- OCLC:
- 798435
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