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 386
her instance and proof of the fact that manyinteresting and beautiful specimens of anticjue geni-engravingliave been misplaced, lost, or overlooked, and we mav stillhope to add to our possessions, not onlv from such uncomelvsources as the old ^Torgiana jar, but also fi-om the ruins ofmany forgotten… … ABRAXAS IN CONTRAST AVITH CHRIS-TIANITY. How touchingly simple were the representations of Christas they were given to the early believers during the first tln-eecenturies alter his manitestation and sojourn on earth! Menshearts were turned to liini through gena-pictures of the manger-cradled child…
Gems · Classical antiquities
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