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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...Zanetti, Dactyliotheca, Rome, 1747. Mariette, Trait/ des pierres gravies, Paris, 1750; and Museum Odescalchum, sive thesaurus gemmarum, Rome, 1751. Gori, Museum Florentinum, Florence, 1731--1762. Natter, Traiti des pierres grav/es, London, 1761. Gori, Dactyliotluca Smithiana, Venice, 1767. Worlidge, Antique gems, London, 1768. Cipriani, Drawings of 100 gems in the Marlborough Collection, engraved by Bartolozzi, 2 Vols. folio, 1780--1791. Raspe, Catalogue of gems cast in paste by James Tassie, London, 1791. Many other large and costly works with illustrations of antique gems were published in the 18th century, but the engravings of that time give little or no notion of the real character of the gems they represent, the main object of the artist being to give a pretty picture rather than a faithful copy. Among more recent works the following should be referred to--Toelken, Erkldrendes Verzeichniss der antiken vertieft geschnit tenen Steine, Berlin, 1835. Kohler, Gesammelte Schriften, herausgegeben von L. Stephani, St Petersburg, 1850--1853. Panofka, Gemmen mit Inschriften, printed in Abhandlungen der Konig. Akad. der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1851, pp. 385--519 Brunn, Geschichte der Griechischen Kiinstler, Brunswick, 1859, Vol. 11. pp. 444--637; and new edition, 1889, Vol. II. PP-303--433Chabouillet, Catalogue des camnes et pierres gravies de la Biblio tlteque ImpMale, Paris, 1858. Stephani and others, Compte-rendu de la Commission Impe'riale Arche'ologique, St Petersburg, i860 to the present time; and, dealing with the same subject, Antiquitds du Bosplwre Cimm/rien, St Petersburg, 1854. Gerhard, Gesammelte akademische Abhandlungen und kleine Schriften, Berlin, 1866. Miiller-Wieseler, Denkmaler der alien Kunst, Theil II., Gottingen, 1869. H. N. Story-Maskelyn...
