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... tion due to its importance : I mean their Engraved Gems . It may with truth be asserted that there are few remains of ancient art so replete with grace and beauty as the engraved gems of antiquity ; and when we take into consideration ...
... tion due to its importance : I mean their Engraved Gems . It may with truth be asserted that there are few remains of ancient art so replete with grace and beauty as the engraved gems of antiquity ; and when we take into consideration ...
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... tion due to its importance : I mean their Engraved Gems . It may with truth be asserted that there are few remains of ancient art so replete with grace and beauty as the engraved gems of antiquity ; and when we take into consideration ...
... tion due to its importance : I mean their Engraved Gems . It may with truth be asserted that there are few remains of ancient art so replete with grace and beauty as the engraved gems of antiquity ; and when we take into consideration ...
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... tion of many thousands of gems of all ages and of every style . These I have illustrated by passages from ancient authors , and by copious extracts from other sources , tending to eluci- date the matters herein discussed . This book had ...
... tion of many thousands of gems of all ages and of every style . These I have illustrated by passages from ancient authors , and by copious extracts from other sources , tending to eluci- date the matters herein discussed . This book had ...
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... tion of gems can be formed in so short a time as in London . It is not my design in this work to describe or even to briefly notice the gems to be found in the principal collections of Europe , as such an undertaking could not be ...
... tion of gems can be formed in so short a time as in London . It is not my design in this work to describe or even to briefly notice the gems to be found in the principal collections of Europe , as such an undertaking could not be ...
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... treasures which he so zealously accumulated . The large number of magnificent Camei marked with his name , LAVR . MED . , still preserved in the Florentine Cabinet , notwithstanding the yet larger propor . tion INTRODUCTION . xiii.
... treasures which he so zealously accumulated . The large number of magnificent Camei marked with his name , LAVR . MED . , still preserved in the Florentine Cabinet , notwithstanding the yet larger propor . tion INTRODUCTION . xiii.
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