Queen's Jewels
Author: Leslie Field
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 1997-09-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780810981720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents the English monarchy's family-owned jewels and details the history of the collection.
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Author: Leslie Field
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 1997-09-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780810981720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents the English monarchy's family-owned jewels and details the history of the collection.
Author: Hugh Roberts
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781905686384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished on the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, this book tells the story of the royal inheritance of diamonds from the time of Queen Adelaide in the 1830s to Elizabeth II.
Author: Anne Schofield
Publisher: NewSouth
Published: 2015-11-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781742231433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnotation. Ancient Roman engraved rings, eye miniature love tokens, an Art Deco aquamarine and diamond brooch ...Anne Schofield unlocks the cabinets in her exclusive Sydney antique jewellery shop in Queen Street, Woollahra and reveals the favourite pieces of jewellery she has bought, sold and collected over 50 years. From world-famous designers to eccentric collectors, in this very personal book Australia's best-known antique jewellery expert shares the fascinating stories behind a stunning array of jewellery.
Author: Leslie Field
Publisher: ABRAMS
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780810924970
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents the English monarchy's family-owned jewels and details the history of the collection.
Author: Anne Bishop
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2021-03-09
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 1984806653
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnter the dark and sensual realms of the Black Jewels, a world where power always has a price, in this sweeping story in the New York Times bestselling fantasy saga. They are Warlord Princes, men born to serve and protect. They are the Queen's Weapons, men born to destroy the Queen's enemies--no matter what face that enemy wears. Daemonar Yaslana knows how to be bossy yet supportive--traits he shares with his father, the Demon Prince, and his uncle, the High Lord of Hell. Within his generation of the family, he assumes the role of protector, supporting his sister Titian’s artistic efforts and curbing his cousin Jaenelle Saetien’s more adventurous ideas. But when a young Eyrien Queen, someone Titian thought was a friend, inflicts an emotional wound, Daemonar's counterattack brings him under the tutelage of Witch, the Queen whose continued existence is known only to a select few. As Daemonar is confronted by troubling changes within and around the family, he sees warnings that a taint in the Blood might be reappearing. Daemonar, along with his father and uncle, must uncover the source of a familiar evil--and Daemon Sadi, the High Lord of Hell, may be forced into making a terrible choice.
Author: Anne Bishop
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2021-01-26
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 1984806637
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPOWER HAS A PRICE. SO DOES LOVE. Return to the dark, sensual, and powerful world of the Black Jewels in this long-awaited new story in the New York Times bestselling fantasy saga. After a youthful mistake, Lord Dillon's reputation is in tatters, leaving him vulnerable to aristo girls looking for a bit of fun. To restore his reputation and honor, he needs a handfast--a one-year contract of marriage. He sets his sights on Jillian, a young Eyrien witch from Ebon Rih, who he believes has only a flimsy connection to the noble society that spurned him. Unfortunately for Dillon, he is unaware of Jillian's true connections until he finds himself facing Lucivar Yaslana, the volatile Warlord Prince of Ebon Rih. Meanwhile, Surreal SaDiablo's marriage is crumbling. Daemon Sadi, the Warlord Prince of Dhemlan, recognizes there is something wrong between him and Surreal, but he doesn't realize that his attempt to suppress his own nature in order to spare his wife is causing his mind to splinter. To save Daemon, and the Realm of Kaeleer if he breaks, help must be sought from someone who no longer exists in any of the Realms--the only Queen powerful enough to control Daemon Sadi. The Queen known as Witch. As Jillian rides the winds of first love with Dillon, Daemon and Surreal struggle to survive the wounds of a marriage turned stormy--and Lucivar has to find a way to keep everyone in his family safe...even from each other.
Author: Charlotte Gere
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780714128191
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The 'age of Victoria' is taken in its widest sense to encompass jewellery made throughout Europe and America, displayed at the great international exhibitions and distributed through foreign trade, illustrated publications and a burgeoning tourist industry ... The focus of the book is on the attitudes of owners to their jewellery and the symbolic weight that it was expected to carry. Rather than concentrating on the major figures at the top end of the jewellery trade, or indeed offering a chronological survey of the development of jewellery styles and fashions, it is oriented towards the social aspects of owning, wearing and displaying jewellery. The authors show, for example, how novelists use jewellery to add a moral or metaphorical dimension to a character, while jewels depicted in portraits would often have disclosed multiple messages which could be immediately decoded by the viewer. The achievements of science, the fascination with nature and the Victorian sense of humour are all embodied in jewellery. Topics discussed in depth include the importance of jewellery in the life of the Queen herself, jewellery and dress, the language of jewellery, the cult of novelty, the importance of nationalism in the revival of historical styles, and the contribution of archaeological discoveries."--Publisher's description.
Author: William Dalrymple
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2017-09-12
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1635570778
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the internationally acclaimed and bestselling historians William Dalrymple and Anita Anand, the first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i-Noor diamond, arguably the most celebrated jewel in the world. On March 29, 1849, the ten-year-old leader of the Sikh kingdom of the Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the center of the British fort in Lahore, India. There, in a formal Act of Submission, the frightened but dignified child handed over to the British East India Company swathes of the richest land in India and the single most valuable object in the subcontinent: the celebrated Koh-i-Noor diamond, otherwise known as the Mountain of Light. To celebrate the acquisition, the British East India Company commissioned a history of the diamond woven together from the gossip of the Delhi Bazaars. From that moment forward, the Koh-i-Noor became the most famous and mythological diamond in history, with thousands of people coming to see it at the 1851 Great Exhibition and still more thousands repeating the largely fictitious account of its passage through history. Using original eyewitness accounts and chronicles never before translated into English, Dalrymple and Anand trace the true history of the diamond and disperse the myths and fantastic tales that have long surrounded this awe-inspiring jewel. The resulting history of south and central Asia tells a true tale of greed, conquest, murder, torture, colonialism, and appropriation that shaped a continent and the Koh-i-Noor itself.
Author: Gertrude Chandler Warner
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 0807554510
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Boxcar Children are vacationing in London, England, where there is so much to see and do. Yet, as they eat their fish and chips, watch the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, and see the famous crown jewels of England, Violet can't shake the feeling that someone is following them. Have the Aldens flown across the ocean straight into a mystery?
Author: Anna Keay
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780500289822
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text captures the magnificence of a collection of symbolic objects steeped in English history like no other: the crown jewels.