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76 - [Italy] [Geology] SPALLANZANI (Abbot Lazarro). Travels in the Two Sicilies and in Certain Parts of the Apennines. Paris: Maradan, Year VIII [1799]. 6 tomes in 3 in-8 volumes, full post-tanned sheepskin.
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[Italy] [Geology] SPALLANZANI (Abbot Lazarro). Travels in the Two Sicilies and in Certain Parts of the Apennines. Paris: Maradan, Year VIII [1799]. 6 tomes in 3 in-8 volumes, full post-tanned sheepskin. 7 folded engraved plates, 5 of which are devoted to volcanoes. Second, entirely new French translation of the account of the scientific journeys undertaken by Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729–1799) in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and the Apennines. It was compiled by Georges Toscan and enriched with notes by Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond. At the end of Volume VI, 21 handwritten pages from the period have been bound in, containing an “Epistle to Abbé Spallanzani” (8 pp), followed by an “Excerpt on the Pelasgian citadels, built—like the paving of the city of Rome and the Appian Way—with lava” (pp. 9–21).
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