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Earthquakes

Images

  • A city devastated by an earthquake or a fire. Etching, 17--.
  • Messina: ruins of the city after an earthquake. Coloured aquatint, 1809, after L. Mayer.
  • Earthquake damage to fortifications, seen from the west, Jalal-Kut, Afghanistan. Coloured lithographs by W.L. Walton, c. 1850.
  • Saint Francis Solano, holding a cross in a landscape. Engraving, 17--.
  • Monteleone di Calabria: an encampment made by people whose dwellings have been destroyed in an earthquake. Drawing by A. Bianchini, 1905.
  • Earthquake damage to fortifications, with trees, Jalal-Kut, Afghanistan. Coloured lithographs by W.L. Walton, c. 1850.
  • Zammarò, Calabria: sappers removing bodies from dwellings destroyed in an earthquake. Drawing by A. Bianchini, 1905.
  • Saint Alexius as protector against earthquakes. Coloured engraving by J. and J. Klauber after J.B Baumgartner.
  • Earthquake damage to fortifications, with waterway, Jalal-Kut, Afghanistan. Coloured lithographs by W.L. Walton, c. 1850.
  • Earthquake damage to fortifications, Jalal-Kut, Afghanistan. Coloured lithographs by W.L. Walton, c. 1850.
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Catalogue

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    A lecture on earthquakes; read in the chapel of Harvard-College in Cambridge, N.E. November 26th 1755. On occasion of the great earthquake which shook New-England the week before. By John Winthrop, Esq; Hollisian Professor of the Mathematics and Philosophy at Cambridge. Published by the general desire of that society. [Five lines from Derham]

    Winthrop, John, 1714-1779. | Date: 1755
  • view A chronological and historical account of the most memorable earthquakes that have happened in the world, from the beginning of the Christian Period. To the present year 1750 : With an appendix, containing a distinct series of those that have been felt in England ... / By a gentleman of the University of Cambridge [i.e. Z. Grey].
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    A chronological and historical account of the most memorable earthquakes that have happened in the world, from the beginning of the Christian Period. To the present year 1750 : With an appendix, containing a distinct series of those that have been felt in England ... / By a gentleman of the University of Cambridge [i.e. Z. Grey].

    Grey, Zachary, 1688-1766. | Date: 1750
  • view The philosophy of earthquakes, natural and religious, Or An inquiry into their cause, and their purpose. ... / By William Stukeley.
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    The philosophy of earthquakes, natural and religious, Or An inquiry into their cause, and their purpose. ... / By William Stukeley.

    Stukeley, William, 1687-1765. | Date: 1756
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    Seneca e le scienze naturali / a cura di Marco Beretta, Francesco Citti, Lucia Pasetti.

    | Date: 2012
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    Natural disasters: lightning, earthquake, and a tornado destroying buildings. Engraving.

    | Date: [between 1600 and 1699] | Reference: 47026i
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