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PAESTUM -- PAOLI, Paulantonio. Paestanae dissertationes...Della cittá di Pesto dissertazioni. Rome: in typographeo Paleariniano, 1784.
2° (487 x 363mm). Title and text (double column) in Latin and Italian, additional engraved titles, dedication leaf after Tiepolo, and 48 plates, many folding, by Bartolozzi, Volpato and others, 14 head- and tailpieces, engraved initials. (Fore-margin of 7 plates and 5 leaves of text somewhat stained.) Contemporary half sheep, gilt spine (head and foot of spine and edges somewhat crudely repaired).
According to Cicognara (2693) an improvement on Major's The Ruins of Paestum, published in London in 1768.
2° (487 x 363mm). Title and text (double column) in Latin and Italian, additional engraved titles, dedication leaf after Tiepolo, and 48 plates, many folding, by Bartolozzi, Volpato and others, 14 head- and tailpieces, engraved initials. (Fore-margin of 7 plates and 5 leaves of text somewhat stained.) Contemporary half sheep, gilt spine (head and foot of spine and edges somewhat crudely repaired).
According to Cicognara (2693) an improvement on Major's The Ruins of Paestum, published in London in 1768.