gems, glyptic, engraved gems, agate, cameo, intaglio, rings, Greece, Rome

Early bibliography of engraved gems. La Bibliothèque Glyptographique is a fundamental reference work written by the German scholar Christoph Gottlieb von Murr and published in French at Dresden in 1804. It is a critical bibliography devoted to glyptics, the art of engraving on precious stones (intaglios and cameos).