1518 - Illustrations of the Antiquities of Herculaneum, 1793

Illustrations of the Antiquities of Herculaneum, 1793 Illustrations of the paintings and antiquities in the Royal Neapolitan Museum at Portici, which have been unearthed since 1738 both in the city of Herculaneum-buried in the year 79 AD-and in Pompeii and the surrounding areas, together with an explanation by Christoph Gottlieb von Murr [...], produced from the original ‘contorno’ copperplate engravings and published by Georg Christoph Kilian [...], Parts IV, V and VI in one volume, 2nd revised edition, Augsburg: Christoph Friedrich Bürglens, 1793, 4° format, 1 folio, 28 pp., 114 plates, XVI/31 pp., 92 plates, 2 leaves, 36 pp., 124 plates, often with several double-leaf-sized illustrations on a single sheet, Title-pages with copperplate vignettes and one copperplate illustration in the text per volume; in a contemporary paperboard binding, which is heavily rubbed, bumped and has minor losses; inside, the pages are occasionally slightly stained, wavy or creased; normal signs of age and wear.