Campi Phlegraei : osservazioni sui vulcani delle Due Sicilie, comunicate alla Reale società di Londra / da Sir William Hamilton ; illustrate con tavole di Pietro Fabris ; [a cura di Gino Doria].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamilton, William, Sir, 1730-1803.

Contributor:

Fabris, Peter, active 18th century.

Doria, Gino, 1888-1975, editor.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Volcanoes--Italy.

Volcanoes.

Italy.

Engraving, Italian.

Vesuvius (Italy).

Etna, Mount (Italy).

Volcanoes--Italy--Sicily.

Italy--Sicily.

Physical Description:

1 portfolio (4 unnumbered pages, 7-41 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 6 unnumbered pages, 23 unnumbered leaves of plates : 24 color illustrations) ; 53 cm

Place of Publication:

Milano : Edizioni Il Polifilo, 1962.

Contents:

Doria, G. Introduzione.

Hamilton, W. Osservazioni sui vulcani delle Due Sicilie.

Tavole.

Limentani, U. Bibliografia [hamiltoniana] (p.39-[42]).

Notes:

Illustrative matter comprises a selection of 23 colored plates from the 53 which appeared in the original 1776 English ed., and a colored facsimile of the engraved t.p. of the original supplement.

Text translated and plates selected from Campi Phlegraei; observations on the volcanoes of the two Sicilies as they have been communicated to the Royal Society of London, by Sir William Hamilton (Naples, 1776. Text in English and French)--and Supplement to the Campi Phlegraei, being an account of the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in the month of August, 1779 (Naples, 1779).

Each plate accompanied by leaf with letter-press. Frontispiece and plates in folders with descriptive letterpress; the folder of the frontispiece is counted as p. [21-24] the folders fo the plates are not included in the pagination.

"A cura di Gino Doria."

Bibliography of works by and about Sir William Hamilton, by Uberto Limentaini: pages 39-[42].

OCLC:

10716887