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Notizie del memorabile scoprimento dell'antica città Ercolano, vicina a Napoli : del suo famoso teatro, templi, edifizj, statue, pitture, marmi scritti e di altri insigni monvmenti, avute per lettera da varj celebri letterati ... : aggiunta la statua equestre di marmo ... : ed una dissertazione sopra la mensa sacra degli ercolanesi scritta con lettere etrusche

Gori, Antonio Francesco, 1691-1757, Passeri, Giovanni Battista, 1694-1780 · 1748 · In Firenze : Nella Stamperia imperiale · 9 pictures

An antiquarian account of the Herculaneum excavations near Naples, compiled from letters of scholars by Antonio Francesco Gori with a dissertation by Giovanni Battista Passeri, printed in Florence by the Stamperia Imperiale in 1748 for learned readers of Roman antiquities. The images indexed here are the book's letterpress woodcut furniture: strip headbands of scrolling acanthus and fruit swags, a mask-and-wing frieze, a hanging urn tailpiece, and a foliate initial block, all usable as borders, rules and drop-cap frames.

Excavations (Archaeology) -- Italy Herculaneum (Extinct city) · Herculaneum (Extinct city) · Italy -- Antiquities, Roman

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