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 143
-our consid-eration. We have no ancient garments, nor furniture, norhabitable structures of those epochs; our interest is in theseminute monuments uf those ancient peoples, and tidings THE STORY-TELLER. 137 from tliem in the loriu of inscriptions are in our posses-sion t()-(lav. Tlie camels sleep;… … THE BAZAAES OF TAXGIER. Within the (•it\ of Tangier the bazaars are more Orientalin their t-spe than tliose of cities farther East; the shamblesopening- on tlie pnbHc square are more airy, and locomotionis more practicable. The ensemble was to me a pleasing picture:piles and hang-ing- masses of…
Gems · Classical antiquities
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