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Monumenta epigraphica pompeiana ad fidem archetyporum expressa. Pars 1, inscriptionum oscarum apographa. Naples: Alberto Detken, 1854.
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FIORELLI, Giuseppe (1823-1896)
Monumenta epigraphica pompeiana ad fidem archetyporum expressa. Pars 1, inscriptionum oscarum apographa. Naples: Alberto Detken, 1854.
Rare first edition of amonumental archaeological monograph preserving the inscriptions of Pompeii as they were unearthed. Fiorelli perfected the technique for Pompeii’s ‘body casts’, that profound, accurate and moving record of the city’s final moments.
The pioneering Neapolitan archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli’s systematic excavations at Pompeii helped to preserve much of the ancient city as nearly intact as possible and his scientific approach contributed significantly to modern archaeological methods. His initial work at Pompeii took place between 1846-1848, after which point he spent time as a political prisoner, producing a three-volume History of Pompeian Antiques (1860–64). Fully professionally rehabilitated in later life – as professor of archaeology at Naples University, director of the National Museum, Naples (from 1863), and director general of Italian antiquities and fine arts (1875–96) – as overseer of excavations at Pompeii (1860–75), he established a systematic ‘top down’ archaeological approach to uncovering the city, focusing on meticulous observation and record-taking, with artefacts preserved in the Museo Pompeiano he built in 1873-1874).
Very rare: only three copies in Italy (OPAC SBN: Biblioteca Universitaria, Genoa; Biblioteca del Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples; and Biblioteca del Parco archeologico di Pompei, Naples). No copies appear on RBH/ABSA.
Elephant folio (890 x 600mm). Number 58 of 100 copies. Lithographic title, preface and table of contents, complete with 10 coloured plates by Richter & Cie, of which four folding (875 x 1600mm and smaller) (small splits at folds of plate 7, tiny marginal losses to plates not touching images, textblock starting to split between pp.8-9, faint spotting throughout, occasional creasing). Original cloth-edged card, ties (a little stained and worn, mostly at edges, ties somewhat tattered).
Monumenta epigraphica pompeiana ad fidem archetyporum expressa. Pars 1, inscriptionum oscarum apographa. Naples: Alberto Detken, 1854.
Rare first edition of amonumental archaeological monograph preserving the inscriptions of Pompeii as they were unearthed. Fiorelli perfected the technique for Pompeii’s ‘body casts’, that profound, accurate and moving record of the city’s final moments.
The pioneering Neapolitan archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli’s systematic excavations at Pompeii helped to preserve much of the ancient city as nearly intact as possible and his scientific approach contributed significantly to modern archaeological methods. His initial work at Pompeii took place between 1846-1848, after which point he spent time as a political prisoner, producing a three-volume History of Pompeian Antiques (1860–64). Fully professionally rehabilitated in later life – as professor of archaeology at Naples University, director of the National Museum, Naples (from 1863), and director general of Italian antiquities and fine arts (1875–96) – as overseer of excavations at Pompeii (1860–75), he established a systematic ‘top down’ archaeological approach to uncovering the city, focusing on meticulous observation and record-taking, with artefacts preserved in the Museo Pompeiano he built in 1873-1874).
Very rare: only three copies in Italy (OPAC SBN: Biblioteca Universitaria, Genoa; Biblioteca del Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples; and Biblioteca del Parco archeologico di Pompei, Naples). No copies appear on RBH/ABSA.
Elephant folio (890 x 600mm). Number 58 of 100 copies. Lithographic title, preface and table of contents, complete with 10 coloured plates by Richter & Cie, of which four folding (875 x 1600mm and smaller) (small splits at folds of plate 7, tiny marginal losses to plates not touching images, textblock starting to split between pp.8-9, faint spotting throughout, occasional creasing). Original cloth-edged card, ties (a little stained and worn, mostly at edges, ties somewhat tattered).
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