Memoirs concerning Herculaneum, the subterranean city, lately discovered at the foot of Mount Vesuvius
Subtitle: 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: 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
Contributors: Arthenay, secretary to the Marquis de l'Hospital; Fordyce, William
Publisher: Printed for D. Wilson, bookseller ...
Published: 1750
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 68
Work titles: Mémoire sur la ville souterraine découverte au pied du mont Vesuve
Notes: Written by abbé Moussinot and edited by d'Arthenay--Cf. BN.

Written originally in French; this edition translated from an Italian edition.

Signatures: A² B-I⁴ K².

ESTC (RLIN), T103435

BN vol. 120, col. 934

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