IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 307292 accession number: PB 22-2021 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Monday 1 November 2021 updated: Tuesday 30 August 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: English and French in parallel columns. Each plate has a leaf of descriptive letterpress text. Old classmarks: 12.M.54; 576, 17.3.D.12 Includes: Supplement to the Campi Phlegræi being an account of the great eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the month of August 1779. Communicated to the Royal Society of London by Sir William Hamilton ... To which are annexed 5 plates illuminated from d[r]awings [sic.] taken, and colour'd after nature under the inspection of the author by the editor Mr. Peter Fabris = Supplement au Campi Philegræi. Naples : [s.n.], MDCCLXXIX [1779]. Binding: by Caumont? Diced brown calf, border (double g. fillet); spine & board edges g.t., border g.t. on inside covers, raised bands, g. lettering; marbled e.p.; a.e. yellow. Repaired by Brockman, 1985. object type: 2 v in 1 (54 leaves of plates, [1] folded leaf of plates) : col ill, map ; 46cm (fol). title: Campi Phlegræi. : Observations on the volcanos of the two Sicilies as they have been communicated to the Royal Society of London / by William Hamilton K.B. F.R.S. His Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary, and Plenipotentiary at the Court of Naples. To which, in order to convey the most precise idea of each remark, a new and accurate map is annexed, with 54 plates illuminated from drawings taken and colour'd after nature, under the inspection of the author, by the editor Mr. Peter Fabris. = Observations sur les volcans des deux Siciles telles qu'elles ont été communiquées à la Société Royale de Londres par le Chavalier Hamilton Chevalier de L'Ordre du Bain, Envoyé Extraordinaire et Plenipotentiaire de Sa Majesté à la Cour de Naples, et membre de la Societé Royale de Londres Auxquelles pour donner une idée plus precise de chaque observation, on a ajouté une carte nouvelle & trés exacte avec 54 planches enluminées d'aprés les desseins faits & coloriés sur la nature même, sous l'inspeciton de l'auteur, par ... le Sieur Pierre Fabris. NOTES ----- type: history note value: Ownership inscription: "Fitzwilliam 1784". LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/307292 CATEGORIES ------ category: book DATING ------ creation date: 1776 - 1779 creation date earliest: 1776 creation date latest: 1779 CREATORS -------- maker: Hamilton, William, Sir maker: Fabris, Peter maker: Caumont, Auguste-Marie de, comte maker: Brockman, James (bookbinder)