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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 279

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A THENS. 275 where taste and love of art chained me throu<ih h^iifr days oftender hght. Everv ruin still beautiful in the wreck of its once perfectart-decoration—the Doric teni2)le of Minerva, the Parthenon,the Hecatompedon, the Ionic temples of Erechtheus and Mi-nerva Polias, the cell of…

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