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Specimens from the Naples Museum : one hundred and sixty-eight plates, engraved on copper by the best Italian artists, illustrating four hundred and sixty-six objects from every branch of art and archaeology (1889)

Museo nazionale di Napoli, Monaco, Domenico, Neville Rolfe, Eustace, 1845-1908 · Naples : E. Pietrocola · leaf 44

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