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 269
^ journey, always seeing another stone beyond me.The enthusiasm which impels a collector is like the deceivingthirst of an inebriate; each draught only increases the desirefor another, and thus urged on from post to post, changingscene, climate, and nationalities, ever other men and manners, on we… … BAAL BEG. Ttie wooden stags nre once more withdrawn, our canvaslionie rolled up and consigned to the mute companions of myexpedition; glad to progress, yet storing to the last kindmemories of our sojourn on the banks of Abana and Ihar-pai-, we depart from Damascus ^\•ith regret, which is…
Gems · Classical antiquities
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