Null Neapel.
Warlike contrafact of the mountain Vesuvius, and of the same fire t…
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Neapel. Warlike contrafact of the mountain Vesuvius, and of the same fire together with the surrounding occasion. Vesuvius mons Neapoleos. Copperplate engraving by M. Merian n. J. Sandrart, 1633, from: Theatrum Europaeum. 4°.

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Neapel. Warlike contrafact of the mountain Vesuvius, and of the same fire together with the surrounding occasion. Vesuvius mons Neapoleos. Copperplate engraving by M. Merian n. J. Sandrart, 1633, from: Theatrum Europaeum. 4°.

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