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 149
)ortant merchant smoking his chibouque, yetall his apparent stock in trade was about two quarts of pis-tachio-nuts, which he sold from a metallic measure holdina:not more than two ounces; he was an exemplitication ofcontentment. ^yfe^-^l^w … THE THEEE AMPHORA. The strangest feature of all was to he seen in a sequesteredalcove, where, on a space made tenantable by the construc-tion of a booth somewhat in the nomadic architecture of theBedouins—a rude skeleton frame of light portable scantling,the ends or joints lashed together witli…
Gems · Classical antiquities
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