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Vulcanologia - Campania - Serao, Francesco

History of the Fire of Vesuvius which occurred in the month of May 1737, 1738

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€ 200 - 400

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€ 219

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Information

Naples, Novello de Bonis, 1738. In 4th. With 2 plates engraved and folded out of text, frieze on the title page, several wormholes which also affect the plates, light browning, more intense on a few leaves, slight foxing, contemporary parchment binding covered with decorated paper, wormholes, some missing parts , defects. Membership writings on the title page.

Specialist Notes

First edition of this famous treatise, also translated into French and English, on the eruption of 1737. 

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