Biz Bookshelf
Not only our expertise and colleagues' support in the trade helped us with creating the lexicon. We confronted our base sources with various sources listed below. Not always accurate, the two main sources that are the Elsevier and the Dizionario do not however feature any definition or explanation, which has always been our main problem.
Title: Elsevier's dictionary of jewellery and watchmaking : in five languages, English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.
Author : Carl Forget
Publisher : Elsevier
Publishing date : 1984
Pages : 507
ISBN : 044442279X 9780444422798
Availability : Out of print - we have contacted the editor and they are not thinking of printing it again.
Lists of words and expressions used in the fields of jewellery, gemology, gold- and silver-smithing, watchmaking, and related subjects. An interesting feature of this dictionary is the inclusion of many incorrect or illegal terms, which are in use in some countries, and which are often incorrectly mentioned in the gem literature.
Title: Dizionario multilingue dell’oreficeria - in 7 languages: Italian, English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch.
Author : -
Publisher : Edizioni Polistampa
Publishing date : 2001
Pages : 372
ISBN : 8883043480
Availability : Amazon, La Feltrinelli
Unfortunately little known, the project was developed and coordinated by Gio Carbone for Le Arti Orafe - International Jewelry School in Florence. Cellini is a pilot project co-funded by the European Commission - Directorate General for Education and Culture, under the Leonardo Da Vinci Operational Program. The aim of the project was to create a multilingual dictionary of terms and concepts concerning the jewelry and jewelry sector, as a research and work tool but without definition.
Title: Dictionnaire international du bijou (in French only)
Author : Marguerite de Cerval
Publisher : Éditions du Regard
Publishing date : 1998
Pages : 600
ISBN : 2903370982
Availability : Amazon, Decitre
This dictionary offers a world wide tour of jewellery and its history with 2 500 entries and many photos alongside them. A few errors might arise but its an important and common book to own in your jewellery book collection.
Title: Dictionnaire professionnel illustré de l'horlogerie
Author : G. A. Berner
Publisher : Fédération de l´industrie horlogère suisse
Publishing date : 1961
Availability : on-line and in print
This dictionary is specialised in watchmaking and also exists on-line via a website and an app (Android and iPhone). It is updated regularly and each term is translated from French to English, German and Spanish.