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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
  1. 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.
Published by
  1. Philadelphia [Sherman & Co., printers] 1889.
Author
  1. Sommerville, Maxwell, 1829-1904.

Details

Additional authors
  1. University of Pennsylvania. University Museum.
Description
  1. 41 p. illus.; 21 cm.
Subject
  1. Amulets and talismans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
Call number
  1. YAM p.v. 409
Note
  1. At head of title: University of Pennsylvania, Department of Archaeology and Paleontology.
Author
  1. Sommerville, Maxwell, 1829-1904.
Title
  1. 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
  1. Philadelphia [Sherman & Co., printers] 1889.
Added author
  1. University of Pennsylvania. University Museum.
Research call number
  1. YAM p.v. 409
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