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 273
)assed be-tween its legs. It AAiis thrown down by an earthquake 224B. c, and it is Ixdieved that a thousand years later many ofits fragments were recovered and again melted and formedinto engines of war. Thence, by Patmos, Samos, and Chios to Smyrna in AsiaMinor, with its bazaars of antiquities and…
Gems · Classical antiquities
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