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Manual descriptive of a collection of talismans engraved on stones and metals of various countries and epochs, illustrative of what man has worn for his protection from accident and disease; also ancient gems, Babylonian cylinders, Persian seals, etc.: being part of the important glyptic collection of Maxwell Sommerville ... loaned on the occasion of the visit of the Pan-American Congress, the National Academy of Sciences, the College Association of the Middle States and Maryland, the Folk-lore Society of America, the School-masters' Association.

Title
Manual descriptive of a collection of talismans engraved on stones and metals of various countries and epochs, illustrative of what man has worn for his protection from accident and disease; also ancient gems, Babylonian cylinders, Persian seals, etc.: being part of the important glyptic collection of Maxwell Sommerville ... loaned on the occasion of the visit of the Pan-American Congress, the National Academy of Sciences, the College Association of the Middle States and Maryland, the Folk-lore Society of America, the School-masters' Association.
Author
Sommerville, Maxwell, 1829-1904.
Publication
Philadelphia [Sherman & Co., printers] 1889.

Details

Additional Authors
University of Pennsylvania. University Museum.
Description
41 p. illus.; 21 cm.
Subject
Amulets and talismans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
Note
  • At head of title: University of Pennsylvania, Department of Archaeology and Paleontology.
Call Number
YAM p.v. 409
OCLC
44519217
Author
Sommerville, Maxwell, 1829-1904.
Title
Manual descriptive of a collection of talismans engraved on stones and metals of various countries and epochs, illustrative of what man has worn for his protection from accident and disease; also ancient gems, Babylonian cylinders, Persian seals, etc.: being part of the important glyptic collection of Maxwell Sommerville ... loaned on the occasion of the visit of the Pan-American Congress, the National Academy of Sciences, the College Association of the Middle States and Maryland, the Folk-lore Society of America, the School-masters' Association.
Imprint
Philadelphia [Sherman & Co., printers] 1889.
Added Author
University of Pennsylvania. University Museum.
Research Call Number
YAM p.v. 409
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