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Excerpt from Handbook of Engraved GemsPage iii.-gladiator's Helmet, with palm-branch on each side instead of plume. It has a vizor of novel construction, being in two pieces, the button on each showing that they were intended to be slid laterally together so as to cover the whole face, leaving only a horizontal aperture for the sight. Car bunele. (s. S. Lewis.)About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and class...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Catalogue of the Cuneiform Tablets: In the in Collection of the British Museum British SupplementNotwithstanding the excavations which had been carried on at Kouyunjik by the late Sir Henry Layard, Mr. George Smith, Mr Hormuzd Bassam, and myself, there still remained in 1891 a considerable portion of the mound to be examined, and a native guardian was appointed by the Trustees of the British Museum to prevent clandestine excavatio...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Antique Gems and Rings, Vol. 2: IllustrationsAztec Lapidary Skill - A very common ornament in the Ometepec (nicaragua) graves is a string of beads, sometimes of chalcedony, and sometimes of lava. The piercing of the latter is wonderful. Many of the beads are an inch in length, ringed all over, and pierced with a hole as fine as ordinary thread. The whole head is no thicker than twine, and most brittle. Had we not seen such wonders...

Excerpt from The Natural History of Gems or Decorative StonesTo avoid unnecessary repetition, reference is occasion ally made in this volume to its companion on 'precious Stones, ' but to no great extent, it having been my object to render each division of my subject complete in itself. For the same reason, some observations properly belonging to the other Part, have_been reintroduced in this, when absolutely required for the elucidation of th...

Excerpt from Early Christian Numismatics: Other Antiquarian TractsOur repeated conversations upon various parti culars in this research had the effect of turning my attention to the whole subject, and to the method in which it might most intelligibly and com prehensively be treated. Coins, especially Roman imperial, had always been a favourite study with me, and (as a matter of course with the English collector) those of the late period, suppl...

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Excerpt from Antique Gems: Their Origin, Uses, and Value as Interpreters of Ancient History, And as Illustrative of Ancient Art, With Hints to Gem CollectorsProbably at no period in England has art in its various relations been so intelligently illustrated and so fully investigated as during the last ten years. The numerous exhibitions of works of art, both in this country and on the Continent, have doubtless partly contributed to this result,...

Excerpt from The Moral UniverseThe following four sermons were preached in a series by the writer on successive Sunday even ings during a revival in his church, the attempt being to set forth in popular form the plan of man's salvation as presented in the Scriptures, and, most explicitly, by the first great theologian of the Church, the inspired apostle, in his Epis tle to the Romans. It is believed, if one will read the Epistle to the Romans ...

Excerpt from Antique Gems and Rings, Vol. 1I have judged its introduction absolutely indispensable to the complete ness of the present treatise.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original forma...

Excerpt from The Claims of Japan and Malaysia Upon Christendom, Vol. 1 of 2: Exhibited in Notes of Voyages Made in 1837, From Canton, in the Ship Morrison and Brig. Himmaleh, Under Direction of the OwnersMeanwhile two other parties of shipwrecked Japanese made their appearance in China. One party, consisting of six, had been wrecked on the island of Hainan, and had been brought thence to Canton under the immediate care of the Hong merchants. I...

Excerpt from The Gnostics and Their Remains: Ancient and MediaevalA still greater cause of outcry against the book was my presuming to lay presumptuous hands upon the Sacred Ark of Masonry, and Openly express my Opinion that the Free and Accepted of these times have no more real connexion with the ancient Craft, out of whose terms and forms, like fig-leaves, they have stitched together aprons, wherewith to cover the real nakedness of their pre...

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Excerpt from The Bell System Technical Journal, 1938, Vol. 17: A Journal Devoted to the Scientific and Engineering Aspects of Electrical CommunicationDuring the last few years new methods and apparatus have been developed and radical changes made that greatly improve the situa tion both from an economic and operating standpoint. The new measuring instruments are much less costly than the types heretofore available and are as stable in operatio...