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Vesuvio
Della Torre, Giovanni Maria
History and phenomena of Vesuvius presented by PDGio: Maria della Torre, 1755
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Naples, Giuseppe Raimondi, 1755. 2nd vol. Allegorical vignette on the title page, 8 plates folded at the end of the volume, marginal browning, wormholes in the lower margin of some plates with slight loss of engraving, contemporary full parchment binding. A beautiful example.
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Original edition of this important treatise on volcanology. This work was crucial not only for its valuable collection and critical analysis of sources, but also because it explicitly posed the objective of examining the history of a volcano not as a succession of external phenomena, but as an analysis of the process of its formation through those phenomena. The fruit of twenty years of fieldwork, which will serve as an example for many international scholars, the naturalist presents an analysis of the mechanics of eruption and the ejected material, placing these activities within a broader perspective that delineates the history of the volcano.
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