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Vesuvio
Serao, Francesco
History of the fire of Vesuvius which occurred in the month of May in the year 1737, 1738
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Naples, Novello de Bonis, 1738. In 2°. Engraving on the title page, two plates folded at the end of the volume titled "Vesuvii Prospectus ex aedibus Regiis" (270 x 430 mm.) and "Vesuvius a vertice dissectus" (240 x 320 mm.), contemporary full hard parchment binding. An excellent copy on strong paper.
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A rare first edition of this fascinating work dedicated to one of the many eruptions of Vesuvius . A series of chapters exhaustively describes the long day of that fateful day in May 1737, the explosion, the lava flow, the materials in this Vesuvius lava, the ash, the rocks, and finally, the state of the volcano after this last eruption. The work is illustrated with two fold-out copperplate maps: the first is a general view of Vesuvius, including everything at its foot, and the second is a closer view.
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