Engraved Gems: Their History and an Elaborate View of their Place in Art

by SOMMERVILLE, Maxwell

$400 · Offered by Between the Covers

Philadelphia: Maxwell Sommerville, 1889. Hardcover. Thick quarto. 783pp. Illustrated with 100 original drawings by the author and with over 500 facsimiles of gems. Red cloth gilt. Owner's name, front hinge tender, modest wear at spine ends, very good. Treatise with reminiscences of travels in the pursuit and acquisition of engraved..... More

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