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 253
l)e suspended in air; the Fran-ciscan monastery, adjoining the Holy Sepulchre; called onthe superior, with whom I had already made a voyage at sea;found him very hospitable; he gave me a relic for the Bava-rian monk my friend Arsacius. A small company of us thendescended with lanterns a shaft which… … JERUSALEM. 249 have been since mounted in rings, pins, etc. for friends; tombsof Hezekiali, Jehoshaphat, Absalom, David, etc. The churches, mosques, and ruins witliiu the city are tosome extent what one sees in otlier Eastern cities, but thepopulation is so heterogeneous that to me a daily stroll…
Gems · Classical antiquities
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