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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Buckram, 232 pages, illustrations (some colour), plans; 28 cm. Reprint, 1973. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. Dust jacket worn at extremities. Profusely illustrated. *** "This book explores the life led by their inhabitants of Pompeii and Herculaneum, before their existence was brutally cut short by the eruption of Vesuvius, wiping out these two cities in 79.A.D." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: 1. History of Pompeii; 2. The volcano roused; 3. The dead cities revived; 4. Pompeii formerly and today; 5. Business, work and recreation; 6. The life of the people; 7. The Pompeiians at home; 8. The Necropoles 9. Herculaneum; 10. Art at Pompeii and Herculaneum. Size: 4to.…