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FUMAGALLI, Paolo

Le ruvine di Pompeia. Trattato pittorico, istorico e geometrico. Opera disegnata negli anni 1822, 1823, 1824
Firenze
1826
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Large folio (46 x 31 cm), 60 + 5 pp, decorative aquatint title incorporating vignette of Vesuvius, text in Italian and French in double column, complete with 87 engraved plates and plans, many fine aquatint views, 2 hand-coloured or partly so, 3 double-page. Some marginal foxing. Contemp. half calf binding, marbled boards + mod. box

Very rare book. The plates document the excavation site with views, mural paintings, single finds and groundplans