Campi Phlegri, Observations on the Volcanos of the Two Sicilies by Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803).  Text in English and in French.  Three volumes.  Map and fifty-nine plates colored en gouache
Naples, 1776.  34 x 47 cm. 

Eruption of Vesuvius at night. 

Woodford Collection, Seeley G. Mudd Science Library

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