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The history of beads : from 30,000 B.C. to the present / Lois Sherr Dubin ; original photography by Togashi.
LIBRA NK3650 .D831 1995 copy 2
Available from offsite location
LIBRA NK3650 .D831 1995
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dubin, Lois Sherr.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beads--History.
- Beads.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 136 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
- Edition:
- Concise edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : H.N. Abrams, 1995.
- Summary:
- Condensed version of the best-selling book, replete with color photos and essential highlights of the original book. Covers a vast range of bead materials and history. Includes 8-page, fold-out time line.
- Contents:
- Introduction: why a book on beads
- Antiquity: from neolithic times to the Roman empire
- Europe: the late Roman empire to the Renaissance
- Prayer beads
- The world of Islam
- The age of European expansion
- Africa
- The far east: China, Korea, and Japan
- India
- Central Asia
- Southeast Asia and the South Pacific
- Middle and South America
- North America
- The special beads: amber and pearls
- The magical eye bead
- The twentieth century: Europe and North America
- Bead chart: a time line of bead history
- Bead shape table.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-132) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2 has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0810926172
- 9780810926172
- OCLC:
- 34725040
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