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Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and other volcanos: in a series of letters, addressed to the Royal Society / from the Honourable Sir W. Hamilton. K.B. F.R.S. His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Pleniopotentiary at the Court of Naples, to which are added, explanatory notes by the author, hitherto unpublished.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Hamilton, William, Sir, 1730-1803.
Contributor:
Cadell, T. (Thomas), 1742-1802
Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Volcanoes--Italy.
Volcanoes.
Italy.
Volcanoes--Early works to 1800.
Vesuvius (Italy).
Etna, Mount (Italy).
Genre:
Personal correspondence.
Penn Provenance:
University of Pennsylvania. Library (stamp) (Culture Class Collection copy)
Physical Description:
iv, 179 pages, 1 unnumbered page : v leaves of plates, map (folded) ; 21 cm
Other Title:
Observations on Mount Vesuvius, &c.
Fingerprint:
toin tyn- t.of muIb (3) 1772 (R)
Place of Publication:
London : Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand, MDCCLXXII [1772]
Notes:
Editor's preface signed: T. Cadell.
Printed for T. Cadell by William Bowyer and John Nichols; their records show 750 copies printed.
Signatures: A² B-M⁸ N².
Signatures from Maslen & Lancaster.
Local Notes:
Culture Class Collection copy has perforated stamp of Library of the University of Pennsylvania.
Cited in:
Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 4932
ESTC, T70123
OCLC:
7072829

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