Memoirs concerning Herculaneum, the subterranean city, lately discovered at the foot of mount Vesuvius, Giving A particular Account of the most remarkable Buildings, Statues, Paintings, Medals, and other Curiosities found there to the present Time. Translated from the Italian of a memorial drawn up by the Secretary of the Marquis D'Hospital Ambassador from France to the Court of his Sicilian Majesty at Naples. And illustrated with notes, by William Fordyce, M. A. To which are added An Extract from Xiphilinus's Epitome of Dion and Pliny the younger's Two Letters, giving an Account of the Overthrow of this City, and the Eruption of Vesuvius that occasioned it.
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Mémoire sur la ville souterraine découverte au pied du Mont Vésuve. English.
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London : printed for D. Wilson Bookseller, at Plato's Head, near Round Court, in the Strand, MDCCL. [1750]
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4,68p. ; 80.
References note
ESTC T103435
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