Entrée principale:

Venuti, Niccolò Marcello, 1700-1755.

Titre et auteur:

A description of the first discoveries of the ancient city of Heraclea, found near Portici, a country palace belonging to the king of the Two Sicilies. In two parts ... Done into English from the original Italian of the Marquis Don Marcello di Venuti. By Wickes Skurray. To which are added some letters that passed between the learned Jo. Matthia Gesner ... Cardinal Quirini, and Hermannus Samuel Reimarus ... concerning these discoveries.

Publication:

London, R. Baldwin, 1750.

Description:

xvi, 143 pages 21 cm

Notes:
Part 1. Containing an account of the foundation of Heraclea, together with a description of that fatal eruption of Mount Vesuvius, by which it was destroyed -- Part 2. Containing a curious account of the discoveries which were made in the years 1689 and 1711, and those of a later date, giving a full description of the Grand Theatre, temples, inscriptions, statues, columns, lamps, urns, vessels of glass, and other metals, paintings, medals, and sundry other curiousities found therein."
Also issued online.
Library copy: bound (2) with 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 curiousities found there to the present time. London : Printed for D. Wilson, MDCCL [1750].

Sujet:

Extinct cities Italy
Herculaneum (Extinct city)
Herculanum (Ville ancienne)
Italy Herculaneum (Extinct city)
Heraclea (Italy : Extinct city)
Italy Antiquities

Vedettes secondaires:

Skurray, Wickes, translator.
Skurray, Wickes.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 191168
Cote: ID86B15152 5852 DG70.H5; ID:97-B1390
Statut: Disponible