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Charles Nicolas COCHIN and Jérôme Charles BELLICARD, Observations sur les antiquités de la ville d'Herculanum.Seconde édition. Paris, Charles Antoine Jombert, 1755 1 vol. in-12°: xxxviiip. 3f. 104p. 40 pl. Bound in contemporary full calf. Wear to corners and covers. Second edition of this treatise on archaeology by the architect Jérôme Bellicard and the famous engraver Cochin. This book marks a turning point in the description of the excavations at Herculaneum, the Roman city destroyed along with Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The book is interesting in more ways than one, as it publishes surveys of the basilica and theater, as well as a full description of the site and the results of the excavations.
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Charles Nicolas COCHIN and Jérôme Charles BELLICARD, Observations sur les antiquités de la ville d'Herculanum.Seconde édition. Paris, Charles Antoine Jombert, 1755 1 vol. in-12°: xxxviiip. 3f. 104p. 40 pl. Bound in contemporary full calf. Wear to corners and covers. Second edition of this treatise on archaeology by the architect Jérôme Bellicard and the famous engraver Cochin. This book marks a turning point in the description of the excavations at Herculaneum, the Roman city destroyed along with Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The book is interesting in more ways than one, as it publishes surveys of the basilica and theater, as well as a full description of the site and the results of the excavations.
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