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 326
ined for it. Would I make an(^fter ? This placing me in the Avrong position, 1 turneil tothe investigation of other ol)jects. Several times during myvisit he called in his valet to seek and hand to lis one caseor another of strange coins, and thus closed our interviewwithout n\\ having acquired the… … 3J GENERAL DEALERS. 321 wrote on a slip of paper, There is a time wlien demandsreach a point at wliicli prudence warns us to wait: with tliismaxim I waited. The same day, when passmg the bronze statue of Sigis-mund III. on the square of the royal castle, I noticed a manwho had been ol)serving me…
Gems · Classical antiquities
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