ERNESTI, JOHANN AUGUST.

Archaeologia literaria. xvi, 127 pages. 8vo, contemporary marbled boards; uncut. 19th-century institutional bookplate. Leipzig: Caspar Fritsch, 1768 first edition. "A remarkable work, entirely ignored in treatises on gem engraving, in which Ernesti develops the origin and history of the writing and engraving of inscriptions by the ancients, mostly Greek, Roman, and Egyptian, executed in various materials, and left behind as manuscripts, coins, medals, bas-reliefs, statuary, engraved gems, etc."--Sinkankas 1939 (not having seen a copy).