Plate XVII of the most famous book on Vulcanoes published during the XVIII century. William Hamilton (1730-1803) was british ambassador for over twenty year at the Kingdom of Naples.His interests in archeology and vulcanology let him to create one of the most important collection of greek vases that was subsequently sold to the British Museum.For the vulcanology he contacted with the landscape painter Petrus Fabris who was living in Naples and comissioned him to take designs from Vesubius, Etna, Stromboli and Lipari islands as volcanic areas in southern Italy.They climbed 22 times to the Vesubius in order to record different stages of the eruptions that he witnessed during his time at Naples. Petrus Fabris designed and later engraved and coloured the plates that Hamilton praised him as "executed with such delicacy and perfection, as scarcely to be distinguished from the original drawings themselves". The book Campi Phlegraei refers to the volcanic area of Pozzuoli nearby Naples that was also an important archeological area with discoveries during the XVIII century joint with Pompey and Herculaneum. Ref: Brunet III, 31. Seller Inventory # 0523062022

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Title: View Of Naples And Nearby Islands, Ischia,...

Publisher: Naples 1776-79

Binding: Sin Encuadernar

Condition: Muy bien

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Libreria fundada en 1992. Especialidad en libros de viaje por Espa�a, Mediterraneo,Oriente medio e Imperio Otomano. Atlas geogr�ficos,vistas topogr�ficas. Libros sobre hist�ria y geograf�a de Espa�a y de dominios espa�oles del s XVI al XIX. Miembro de AILA, ILAB.

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