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 153
even at this remote day, and among othersI treasure \n\ Lucius, and finding the incident of its subjectso entertaining, it will be given under the head of Interesting-Incidents of Subjects. With the gem 1 had acquired, myLucius, safe in an inner pocket, I left the mosques and thewhite houses and… … PORTUGAL. For nearly tliirty years I liave enjo^-ed the friendship ofan old Franciscan monk, Frater Arsacius, in the monasteryof that order in ]\Iiunch, who during twelve years was a mis-sionary in the West of the United States, where we had nuitualfriends in Cincinnati. At liis instigation I added…
Gems · Classical antiquities
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