The Modern History of Celtic Jewellery: 1840-1980, Paperback - Aidan Breen

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- The illustrated work and biographies of 25 key British jewelers, including Stuart Devlin, Elizabeth Gage, Joseph Kutchinsky and Gerda Flöckinger-...

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Reducere. A step-by-step guide to drawing Celtic knots, the most widely appealing form within the rich repertoire of Celtic design. This comprehensive survey...

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Definitive, comprehensive overview of costume jewellery that follows the evolution of costume jewellery from bourgeois France to the present day. c...

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A study of Celtic manuscripts with a collection of 16 alphabets of decorated letters. Some of the Celtic styles represented are knotwork, animal, s...

THREE POPULAR BOOKS NOW IN ONE VOLUME The step-by-step instructions provide an invaluable resource for artists, designers, and craftspeople.A Begin...

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This book traces the history of the Irish language from the time of the Norman invasion to independence. Aidan Doyle addresses both the shifting po...

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The Dutch art historian and jewellery expert Marjan Unger died back in 2018, at the age of seventy-two. Through her teaching and her myriad project...

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This book takes the reader on a tour through time, covering how to identify the most popular gemstones, materials, styles and collectible antique p...

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In 1955 The Museum of Modern Art staged Latin American Architecture, since 1945, a landmark survey of modern architecture in Latin America. This bo...

Starting at the `September Revolution' of 1868 and going up to 1980, Raymond Carr explains much of modern Spanish history - often a strange mixture...

This book is the first to trace the good and bad fortunes, over more than a century, of the earliest large free black community in the United State...

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Reducere. "Ancestry. The Hebrew Identity of Celtic Races, " provides Proof that amongst Celtic Peoples (especially those of Britain and Ireland) were to be f...