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Disney, John Museum Disneianum, being a Description of a Collection of Various Specimens of Ancient Art, in the possession of John Disney [...]
London Thompson and Co. 1857 First Edition Hardcover Fair with no dust jacket Illustrated by Measom, George
Cloth spine almost entirely missing. Rear board detached. Ex-library. Library stamps and markings. Library rubber stamps throughout, including on the verso but not the printed side of all of the plates "Public Library Reference Department Wellington". Plates generally clean, a few thumb marks mainly to the margins of the leaves.; Volume Two of a three volume work. [iv], xiii pages + 37 b&w plates, numbered from LIX to XCV, with accompanying text. Green blind-stamped cloth boards with small gilt illustration in centre of both boards. Page dimensions: 14"x 10 1/4". This second volume covers bronzes. "The former part of this work was exclusively dedicated to marbles. It is now proposed to give engravings of some bronzes, and Anglo-Roman pottery, and three cinerary urns, with objects in terra cotta and glass." - from the Introduction. Plates in this volume: Ibis; Thuribulum; Lamp (Bull's Head); Lamp (Three Burners); Lamp (Six Burners); Lamp (African Slave, Two Burners); Printing Stamp...Lamps; A Vase Handle...Lamp; A Stewpan; A Vase Handle...Armilla; Small Tripod; Jupiter Stator; Jupiter Serapis; Hercules (Fatigued); Bacchus (Young); A Wrestler; Pan on a Goat; Pan (Kneeling); Roman Horse; Acerra; Horse's Head; Candelabrum (Benevenuto Cellini); Lucretia; Vesta Sedens...Isis... A Nondescript; Egyptian Antinous; Roman Matron; Etruscan Urn; Etruscan Urn...Chiusu Urn; Pompeian Glass; A Boar's Head...A Stele; Left Foot...Part of an Earthern Vessel; Samian Fragments; Three Celts... The Bull's Head; Anglo-Roman Pottery; Anglo-Roman Pottery; Table Leg...Table Leg; Egyptian Cone.; Folio
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