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By George Frederick Kunz,Charles Hugh Stevenson

ISBN-10: 1149298952

ISBN-13: 9781149298954

ISBN-10: 129649201X

ISBN-13: 9781296492014

This huge, profusely illustrated quantity through famous professionals is one of the biggest unmarried choice of information almost about pearls. Its huge, immense quantity of certain info covers their beginning and background, constitution, and shape; the pearl fisheries of Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas; interesting proof and lore on pearl-culture and pearl-farming; the gem's mystical and medicinal homes; well-known pearl collections world wide; and masses extra. Over one hundred eighty illustrations improve the hugely readable textual content, absolute to intrigue any lover of gems.

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