Language: English
Published by Scribner & Co., NY, 1879
Seller: Legacy Books II, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: VG. 13pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 9 characteristic Scribner's engravings, final page in reproduction, salvaged from a damaged issue of Scribner's Monthly, Volume XVIII, No. 1, May, 1879. Illustrations include the sarcophagus found at Campo Verano, the end of the sarcophagus, the sculpture of Commodus as the infant Hercules, a sarcophagus found near Tivoli, Commodus as Hercules, Rhyton, the statue of Urania found in the Garden of Maecenas, a terra cotta bas - relief representing the parting of Thesus and Ariadne, and a bronze thensa, or Roman sacred car presented to the museum by Augusto Castellani. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve.