Jewel: A Visual Celebration of the World’s Most Precious Gems

Emeralds from Colombia. Sapphires from Kashmir. Diamonds from South Africa. Pearls from the Persian Gulf. Opals from Australia. For thousands of years, human beings have gone to extraordinary lengths to extract from the earth the small, beautiful, extraordinarily valuable objects that this book celebrates. DK’s Jewel tells the complete story — geological, historical, cultural, and aesthetic — of the world’s most prized stones and the jewellery that has been made from them.

Over three hundred jewels and jewellery pieces are presented in full-colour photography of exceptional quality, alongside expert text covering the mineralogy of each stone, its history of discovery and mining, its cultural significance across different civilisations, and the great jewellers and jewellery houses that have shaped how we think about precious objects.

A magnificent visual celebration — the ideal gift for anyone who loves beautiful things and wants to understand them more deeply. Published by DK.