Engraved gems; their history and place in art, in which is embodied the author's former treatise, with extensive revisions and additions; reminiscences of travels in the pursuit and acquisition of engraved gems ... to which is added a descriptive list of the author's cabinet of gems, forming a compend of Greek and Roman classics and antiquities .. (1889)
Sommerville, Maxwell, 1829-1904 · Philadelphia, M. Sommerville · leaf 115
rches on tliis subject in the BibliothequeNationale at Paris, I met witha paper on gem-stones liy Kobert Dingley, Esq., in Phil. Trciitttuclions, 1747, in which healso mentions the chry.solite having been used for gem-engraving. RETROSPECTIVE. 100 The builders stones are graven ; the footway is of… … EELIGION ON STOK^ES. We have found here unquestionably information not to beobtained from any other source. If ancient engraved stoneshad never been unearthed or found, we would have beenignorant to-day of much that is interesting and importantconcerning the historic chain which now connects lis…
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