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 345
Wm STATUES OF THE XILE AXD TIBER. 339 together. (The reference is to his books being read in ournew country and in the old.) To which add tliis thought of mine: Some of the ti-easuresin my collection have been transported from their resting-places in the Nile and the Tiber to exist anew in this… … ELEYEN THOUSAND VIRGINS. AVhex at Colop-ne viewing the Romanesque and Gothiciluircli of .St. Ursuhi, a commissionnaire of the town, awareof my pursuit, came to me and proposed he shoukl take meto see a collection of antiquities. Agreed, when I have fin-ished with these bones, was my reply. The…
Gems · Classical antiquities
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