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Jean Besancenot Besancenot, Jean. - Arab and...

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Jean Besancenot Besancenot, Jean. - Arab and Berber jewellery from Morocco. Casablanca, Éditions de la Cigogne, Jacques Klein, 1953. In-4 in sheets under cover and illustrated portfolio with cloth spine and laces - cloth spine in poor condition - XVI pp. (including introduction by the author), 24 pp. of explanation of the plates and the table (the last 5 of which are not numbered), 1 colour frontispiece representing a young girl from Tissint adorned with her jewels. Complete with 40 plates describing 193 models of jewellery drawn and commented by J. Besancenot, folklorist. One joined there: one joined there a plate Jewels - Amulets Form and Symbol in Arts of Morocco, Volume I.