De Juwelenstoet uitgangen te Antwerpen, den 12, 15 en 19 Augustus 1923/Le Cortège des Bijoud sorti à Anvers les 12, 15 et 19 août 1923/The Jewels Pageant display at Antwerp on August 12th, 15th and 19th 1923.

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Antwerp, 1923. Oblong 8°, limp gilt lettered calf, 2 gilt tooled coats-of-arms in lower right corner of upper boards, gilt inside dentelle. hftitle, title printed in red and black, [5 acknowledgements & introd. text, 61 full-p. col. & plain plates, with descr. text printed on tissue-guards, & explanatory text on facing-p. of first plate. Text throughout tri-lingual: Flemish, French & English. Col. initials, col. end-vignette on recte of last p. This curious Jewel Pageant has been organized by the Antwerp Diamond Commerce Industry in 1923, wishing to celebrate the brilliant revival with splendour, & to associate the entire population & even the whole of Belgium to it, organized by a Committee of:"Diamond Commerce and Industry of Antwerp". The plates depict a variety of great historic events throughout the world attributed to Diamonds & diamond-industries, concerning countries as the United States, France, Venice, China, Japan, Turkey, Persia,&c.Published in a limited & numbered edn. of a 1000 copies, this copy bears nr. 704. A commercial curiosity. (bds. lightly shaved on rims, tail-end of spine damaged, small particly of top spine-end gone, but skilfully replaced). N° de ref. del artículo 12775

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