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 433
Oung manhood, stands Antinous, whom the deilied ri\er hastaken unto himself—twice a favorite. The figures overlieadare perhaps the sj)irits of the Kliamseen, the wind whichblows fifty days. Tliis description is a tianslatidii of ihe one sold, with a photograph full size of tliegem, bv the…
Gems · Classical antiquities
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