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A description of the first discoveries of the antient city of Heraclea, found near Portici, a country palace belonging to the King of the two Sicilies. In two parts. 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 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, Professor at Gottenburgh, Cardinal Quirini, and Hermannus Samuel Reimarus, Professor at Hamburgh, concerning these discoveries.
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Author Venuti, Niccolò Marcello
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London
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printed for R. Baldwin, jun. at the Rose, in Pater-Noster-Row
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History and Geography
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T101267
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