 ... Cicero gave no less than one million sesterces for a veneered table of citrus wood." Pliny goes on to say: "The wood, too, of the beech is easily worked, although it is brittle and soft. Cut into thin layers of veneer, it is very flexible, but it...  Intarsia Had Marquetry - Sayfa 5Frederick Hamilton Jackson tarafından - 1903 - 152 sayfaTam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | Pliny (the Elder.) - 1855 - 608 sayfa
...flexible, but is only used for the construction of boxes and desks. The wood, too, of the holm-oak is cut into veneers of remarkable thinness, the colour...that this wood is valued, as being one to be depended upon ; in the axle-trees of wheels, for instance ; for which the ash is also employed, on account of... | |
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