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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: ...Gori, Museum Florentinum, Florence, 1731--1762. Natter, Traiti des pierres gravies, London, 1761. Gori, Dactyliotlieca 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. II. pp. ///--637; and new edition, 1889, Vol. II. PP-303--433 Chabouillet, Catalogue des came-es et pierres gravies de la Biblio theque Impe-rialc, Paris, 1858. Stephani and others, Compte-rendu de la Commission Impe-rialc Arche'ologique, St Petersburg, i860 to the present time; and, dealing with the same subject, Antiquitis du Bosplwre Cimme-rien, St Petersburg, 1854. Gerhard, Gesammelte akademische A bhandlungen und kleine Schriften, Berlin, 1866. Miiller-Wieseler, Denkmaler der alien Knnst, Theil II., Gbttingen, 1869. H. N. Story-Maskelyne, Catalogue of the Marlborough gems, privately printed, London, 1870. Milchhoefer, Die Anftinge der Kunst in Griechcnland, Leipzig, 1883, pp...
