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Pompei
Francisco Maria Avellino
Description of a Pompeian house with figural capitals at the entrance excavated in the years 1831, 1832, and 1833, 1837
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Naples, Tipografia Tramater, 1837. In 4vo. With 10 folded copper-engraved plates at the end of the volume, light foxing, rear cloth binding, gilt title within a tag on the cover and spine.
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First edition of this study by Francesco Maria Avellino (Naples, 1788–1850). An archaeologist, philologist, and numismatist, among the leading scholars of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, he was a professor at the University of Naples and permanent secretary of the Pontaniana Academy. He was director of the Royal Bourbon Museum and in charge of the excavations of Pompeii from 1839 to 1850.
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