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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