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 369
THE FALL OF PHAETHOX.(Ejilnrged.) … ASTRAGALUS. Some years ago I left Rome late in the month of March:even in Venice and other northern Italian cities it was alreadytoo warm. AVe passed the j\Iont St. Gothard, and in a citymantled with snow I very unexpectedly met with severalcurious stones. One particularly comes into the category…
Gems · Classical antiquities
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