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• Gemmae et sculpturae antiquae, depictae ab Leonardo Augustino Senensi (Apud Leonardum Strik bibliopolam, 1694), by Leonardo Agostini, Leonardus Strik, G. van Houten, and Jacobus Gronovius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorie degli antichi incisori che scolpirono i loro nomi in gemme e cammei (G. Cambiagi, stampatore, 1784), by Domenico Agostino Bracci and Gaetano Cambiagi (page images at HathiTrust)
• De re vestiaria veterum praecipue de lato clavo libri duo (Ex Officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti, 1665), by Albert Rubens and Gio. Battista Doni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Descrizione istorica del museo di Cristiano Denh ... (Dalle stampe di Generoso Salomoni, 1772), by Francesco Maria Dolce, Generoso Salomoni, Georg Abraham Nagel, and Domenico Cunego (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gemme antiche figvrate (Appresso Gio. Battista Bussotti, 1686), by Leonardo Agostini, Giovanni Battista Bussotti, Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi, and Giovanni Pietro Bellori (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contemplatio gemmarum quarundam dactyliothecae Gorlaei, ante biennium & auctae, & illustratae (Imprimebat Ulricus Liebpertus ..., 1697), by Lorenz Beger and Ulrich Liebpert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gemme antiche figurate di Leonardo Agostini senese (Apud Abrahamum Blooteling, 1685), by Leonardo Agostini, Abraham Blooteling, and Jacobus Gronovius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spicilegium antiqvitatis, sive, Variarum ex antiquitate elegantiarum (Typis Ulrici Liebperti ..., 1692), by Lorenz Beger and Ulrich Liebpert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collection of gems : taken from the classics (Printed for Claude du Bosc, and William Darres, Booksellers, 1741), by George Ogle and Claude Du Bosc (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dactyliothecae, seu, Annulorum sigillarium quorum apud priscos tam Graecos quam Romanos usus (Excudit Petrus Vander Aa, bibliop., 1695), by Abraham van Goorle, Anthony van Zylvelt, Jacob de Gheyn, and Jacobus Gronovius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dactyliotheca, seu, Annulorum sigillarium quorum apud priscos tam Graecos quam Romanos usus e ferro, aere, argento & auro promptvarivm (s.n., 1601), by Abraham van Goorle and Jacob de Gheyn (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Spiegazione di una raccolta di gemme : incise dagli antichi con osservazioni risguardanti la religione, i costumi, e la storia dell'arte degli antichi popoli (Milano : Nell'Imperial monist. di S. Ambrogio Magg., MDCCXCV., 1795), by Luigi Bossi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Veneres uti observantur in gemmis antiquis. ([s.n., 1771), by Pierre d' Hancarville (page images at HathiTrust)
• A select collection of drawings from curious antique gems : most of them in the possession of the nobility and gentry of this kingdom : etched after the manner of Rembrandt (Printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidge ... and M. Wicksteed ..., 1768), by T. Worlidge, James Wicksteed, and Dryden Leach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gemmae antiquae Antonii Mariae Zanetti Hieronymi f (Nella stamperia di Giambatista Albrizzi q. Gir., a spese dell'autore, 1750), by Antonio Maria Zanetti, Girolamo Francesco Zanetti, and Antonio Francesco Gori (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thesavrvs gemmarvm antiqvarvm astriferarvm (Ex officina typogr. Albiziniana, 1751), by Giovanni Battista Passeri, J. Verkruys, Ioannes Franceschini, Giuseppe Zocchi, Antonio Francesco Gori, and Officina typographica Albiziniana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drawings from curious antique gems (Printed by D. Leach for M. Worlidge, 1768), by T. Worlidge, Dryden Leach, and Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gemmarum et numismatum Graecorum in cimeliarchio electorali Brandenburgico elegantiorum series (Typis et impensis electoralibus, excudit Ulricus Liebpert ..., 1696), by Lorenz Beger, Michael Rüdiger, Ulrich Liebpert, Paul Werner, Johann Tscherning, Augustin Terwesten, Augustin Oldenburgh, John C. Smith, Samuel Blesendorf, and Constantin Friedrich Blesendorf (page images at HathiTrust)

• Über zwei Gemmen (Gedrukt bei A. Pluchart und Comp., 1810), by Heinrich Karl Ernst von Köhler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Catalogue of engraved gems of the classical style (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1920), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and Gisela M. A. Richter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Museum Cortonense : in quo vetera monumenta complectuntur anaglypha, thoreumata, gemmae inscalptae insculptaeque quae in Academia etrusca ceterisque nobilium virorum domibus adservantur, in plurimus tabulis aereis distributum (F. Amidei, 1750), by Accademia etrusca. Museo, Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Ridolfino Venuti, Antonio Francesco Gori, and Francesco Valesio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gemmae antiquae Antonii Mariae Zanetti Hieronymi f (Nella stamperia di Giambatista Albrizzi q. Gir., a spese dell'autore, 1750), by Antonio Maria Zanetti, Girolamo Francesco Zanetti, and Antonio Francesco Gori (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gemmarum et numismatum Graecorum in cimeliarchio electorali Brandenburgico elegantiorum series (Typis et impensis electoralibus, excudit Ulricus Liebpert ..., 1696), by Lorenz Beger, Michael Rüdiger, Ulrich Liebpert, Paul Werner, Johann Tscherning, Augustin Terwesten, Augustin Oldenburgh, John C. Smith, Samuel Blesendorf, and Constantin Friedrich Blesendorf (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Lewis collection of gems and rings in the possession of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, with an introductory essay on ancient gems (C.J. Clay and Sons, 1892), by J. H. Middleton, Samuel Savage Lewis, and Lewis Collection (Corpus Christi College) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Recueil de 300 têtes et sujets de composition (Se vend a Paris ches Basan, 1775), by Anne Claude Philippe Caylus, Charles-Antoine Coypel, and François Basan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recueil de pierres gravées du Cabinet du Roi (s.n., in the 1750s), by Anne Claude Philippe Caylus, Jean Henri Prosper Pouget, and Charles-Antoine Coypel (page images at HathiTrust)

• Museum Cortonense, in quo vetera monumenta complectuntur, anaglypha, thoreumata, gemmae inscalptae, insculptaeque quae in Academia etrusca ceterisque nobilium virorum domibus adservantur in plurimis tabulis aereis distributum, atque a Francisco Valesio Romano, Antonio Francisco Gorio Florentino, Rodulphino Venuti Cortonense notis illustratum. (sumptibus Fausti Amidei... typis Joannis Generosi Salomoni..., 1750), by Giovanni Generoso Salomoni, Fausto Amidei, Ridolfino Venuti, Antonio Francesco Gorio, Francesco Valesio, and Accademia etrusca. Museo (page images at HathiTrust)

• Antiquities explain'd (Cl. Du Bosc, 1700), by George Ogle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Raccolta di gemme antiche figurate (Pietro Paolo Montagnani-Mirabili, 1805), by Pietro Santi Bartoli and Michel Ange de La Chausse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recueil de pierres gravées antiques. (De l'imprimerie de P.J. Mariette ..., 1732), by Michel Philippe Lévesque de Gravelle (page images at HathiTrust)

• Grand cabinet romain (Chez François L'Honoré, & Zacharie Chastelain le fils, 1706), by Michel Ange de La Chausse, Jan Goeree, Caspar Luiken, and Joachim Roche (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monumenta antiqua Judaica, Augustæ Vindel. reperta, & enarrata, cum mantissa III. monum. vetustorum Roman. : Operis Velseriani de antiquis monum. August. appendice quadam. (apud Viduam Theoph. Gœbelii, typis Koppmayerianis impressa,, 1686), by Matthias Friedrich Beck, Jakob Koppmayer, and Gottlieb Göbel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selectiora nvmismata (Apud Antonium Dezallier ..., 1695), by Jean Foy-Vaillant and François de Camps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sammlung einiger Aufsätze historischen, antiquarischen, mineralogischen und ähnlichen Inhalts (Bey C. G. Fleckeisen, 1800), by August Ferdinand Veltheim (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage d'Italie, de Dalmatie, de Grece, et du Levant : fait aux années 1675 & 1676 (Chez Rutgert Alberts, 1724), by Jacob Spon and George Wheler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettres de Paciaudi, bibliothécaire et antiquaire du duc de Parme, historiographe de l'ordre de Malte, associé libre de l'Académie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres, et membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes, au comte de Caylus : avec un appendice, des notes et un essai sur la vie et les écrits de cet antiquaire italien (Henri Tardieu, 1802), by Paolo Paciaudi, A. Sérieys, and Anne Claude Philippe Caylus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sammlung antiquarischer Aufsätze (Bey Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1778), by Christian Gottlob Heyne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to classical learning (Printed for R. Horsfield, in Ludgate-Street, and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, 1765), by Joseph Spence, Paul Fourdrinier, James Dodsley, R. Horsfield, and N. Tindal (page images at HathiTrust)
• M. Mantuae Beneuidii, Patauini, Iuriscon. Comitis Palatini, & legum iterpretis clariss. Polymathia, : hoc est, disciplina multiiuga, nunc primum in studiosorum gratiam aedita. (Apud Io. Franciscum Camocium,, 1558), by Marco Mantova Benavides and Johannes Franciscus Camotius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Germana quædam antiquitatis eruditæ monumenta quibus Romanorum veterum ritus varii tam sacri quam profani, : tum Græcorum atque Ægyptiorum nonnulli illustrantur, Romae olim maxima ex parte collecta, Ac Dissertationibus jam singulis instructa, a Conyers Middleton, S. T. P. Academiae Cantabrigiensis Protobibliothecario. His Appendicis item Loco adjuncta est Mumiae Cantabrigiensis Descriptio. (apud R. Manby et H. S. Cox in vico vulgo dicto Ludgate-Hill, 1745), by Conyers Middleton and Fondo Cicognara (Biblioteca apostolica vaticana) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vetera monimenta : in quibus praecipuè musiva opera sacarum profanarumque aedium structura, ac nonnulli antiqui ritus, dissertatiobus, iconibusque illustrantur (Ex typographia Joannis Jacobi Komarek, Bohemi, apud S. Angelum custodem, 1690), by Giovanni Giusto Ciampini, Giovanni Battista Lenardi, and Arnold van Westerhout (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage d'Italie, de Dalmatie, de Grece, et du Levant : fait aux années 1675. & 1676. (Chez Antoine Cellier le fils, 1678), by Jacob Spon, Antoine Cellier, and George Wheler (page images at HathiTrust)
• De l'utilité des voyages : et de l'avantage que la recherche des antiquitez procure aux sçavans (Chez Pierre Auboüin et Pierre Emery, 1686), by Charles-César Baudelot de Dairval and Franz Ertinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• A select collection of drawings from curious antique gems : most of them in the possession of the nobility and gentry of this kingdom : etched after the manner of Rembrandt (Printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidge ... and M. Wicksteed ..., 1768), by T. Worlidge, James Wicksteed, and Dryden Leach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Akademische Vorlesungen über die Litterair-Archäologie (In der Richterschen Buchhandlung, 1796), by Georg Heinrich Martini and Johann August Ernesti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antiquitates Middletonianae (Londini : Apud R. Manby et H.S. Cox in vico vulgo diceo Ludgate Hill, MDCCXLV [1745]., 1745), by Conyers Middleton, Robert Manby, and James Mynde (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorie degli antichi incisori che scolpirono i loro nomi in gemme e cammei (G. Cambiagi, stampatore, 1784), by Domenico Agostino Bracci and Gaetano Cambiagi (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo : cioè pugna d'amore in sogno, dou'egli mostra, che tutte le cose humane non sono altro che sogno, & doue narra molt'altre cose degne di cognitione. (In Casa de' Figliovoli di Aldo, 1545), by Francesco Colonna (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches curieuses d'antiquité, contenues en plusieurs dissertations sur des medailles, bas-reliefs, statues, mosaiques, & inscriptions antiques : enrichies d'un grand nombre de figures en taille douce (Chez Thomas Amaulry ..., 1683), by Jacob Spon, Thomas Amaulry, and Mathieu Ogier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cabinet de la Bibliotheque de Ste. Genevieve, premiere partie (A Paris : Chez Antoine Dezallier, ruë Saint Jacques, à la Couronne d'or, MDCXCII [1692], 1692), by Claude Du Molinet, Franz Ertinger, and Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to classical learning (Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall , 1777), by Joseph Spence, James Dodsley, and N. Tindal (page images at HathiTrust)
• De diptycho Brixiano Boethii consvlis epistola epigraphica (Excudit Heideggerus et Soc., 1749), by Io. Casp. Hagenbuchius and Angelo Maria Quirini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hercules Ethnicorum ex variis antiquitatum reliquiis delineatus ([Typis Ulrici Liebperti], 1705), by Lorenz Beger, Wolf Christof Taucher, and Fondo Cicognara (Biblioteca apostolica vaticana) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Osservazioni sopra l'avorio fossile, e sopra alcuni monumenti greci e latini, conservati in Venezia nel museo dell' eccellentissima patrizia famiglia Nani de' SS. Gervasio e Protasio (Appresso Guglielmo Zerletti, 1759), by Giovanni Battista Passeri and A. P. Novelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Itinerarium (Ex novo Typographio Joannis Pauli Giovannelli ..., sumptibus typographi, 1742), by d'Ancona Ciriaco, Giovanni Paulo Giovanelli, Pope Eugene IV, and Lorenzo Mehus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Romanum museum, sive, Thesaurus eruditae antiquitatis (Typis Jo. Francisci Chracas ..., 1707), by Michel Ange de La Chausse, Carlo Maratti, and Giovanni Francesco Chracas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spicilegium antiqvitatis, sive, Variarum ex antiquitate elegantiarum (Typis Ulrici Liebperti ..., 1692), by Lorenz Beger and Ulrich Liebpert (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Greek and Roman history illustrated by coins & medals representing their religions, rites, manners, customs, games, feasts, arts and sciences : together with a succint account of their emperors, consuls, cities, colonies and families, in two parts, necessary for the introduction of youth into all the useful knowledge of antiquity / by O.W. (London : Printed by G. Croom, for William Miller ... and Christopher Wilkinson ..., 1692), by Obadiah Walker (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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