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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and Pleniopotentiary at the Court of Naples, to which are added, explanatory notes by the author, hitherto unpublished.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.
- 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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