A description of the first discoveries of the antient city of Heraclea
Subtitle: found near Portici, a country palace belonging to the king of the Two Sicilies : in two parts...
By: 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
Contributors: Skurray, Wickes
Publisher: Printed for R. Baldwin ...
Published: 1750
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; ita
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: Herculaneum (Extinct city) -- Early works to 1800; Italy -- Antiquities -- Early works to 1800; Vesuvius (Italy) -- Early works to 1800
Work titles: Descrizione delle prime scoperte dell' antica città d'Ercolano.
Notes: First edition in English

Signatures: [A] in 4, a in 4, B-T in 4s

Contents: (from t.p.) Part I. 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 II. 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 curiosities found therein

ESTC T101267