Coins, medals, and seals, ancient and modern. Illustrated and described. With a sketch of the history of coins and coinage, instructions for young collectors, tables of comparative rarity, price lists of English and American coins, medals and tokens, &c., &c (1861)
Prime, William Cowper, 1825-1905 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 20
at iEsculapius would come to Eome and turn away theplague then raging. The embassadors brought back a sacredsnake, which found its own way into the cabin of their ship, andwhich, when they arrived in the Tiber, swam to the island in theriver on which was afterward built the temple of… … CONFIRMATION OF SACRED WRIT. Examples might be multiplied from the illustrations in thisvolume; but it is no part of the design of the work to deprivethe young collector of the pleasure and profit to be derived bysearching out for himself the numerous historical incidents or an-cient forms and…
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