John Evelyn
Published: 2017-05-26
Total Pages: 372
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Excerpt from Numismata: A Discourse of Medals, Antient and Modern; Together With Some Account of Heads and Effigies of Illustrious, and Famous Persons, in Sculps, and Taille-Douce, of Whom We Have No Medals Extant; And of the Use to Be Derived From Them We cannot without grief confider, that of once thoufand Statues, nay r qualtoliving Meir, eh t tant intire and unblemiflfd'. Neir tude of fome of them fecu're them their deepel'tlnfcriptions crumble away, and become no more legible: G'ifiures and Colours fade: -what's now become ofwall thole admired Works of Apelles, Zeuxis, rplsidias, G'raxiteles, and-the rel'r of thole Celebrated eartifis of, lo many antie'nt Bboks ias ohce filled thole Noble and Royal'iliibi'aries at Percgamus and Alexandria 2 'tis deplorable even to confider. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
