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Title(s)
Views and description of the late volcanic island off the coast of Sicily / by G.W. Smythe, cavalry officer in the service of H.M. the King of Sardinia.
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Additional Title(s)
Views of the late volcanic island
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Published/Created
London : Published by Joseph Booker, 61, New Bond Street, [1831]
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Physical Description
[4], 14 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 32 cm.
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
QE527.2.I8 S69 1831+ Copy 2 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
Rare Books and Manuscripts
QE527.2.I8 S69 1831+ Copy 1 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Accessible in the Study Room [Request] -
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Classification
Books
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Notes
Cover title, stamped in gilt: Views of the late volcanic island.
Dedication signed: George Walter Smythe.
Lithography by George Frederick Prosser; after G.W. Smythe. Plates printed by C. Hullmandel.
At head of title: Dedicated, by permission, to His Most Gracious Majesty, William the Fourth.
Date of publication from NSTC.
NSTC, 2S29558
BAC: British Art Center has two copies. Both bound in publisher's original (?) green cloth, with title stamped in gilt. Lithographs in copy 2 are printed on India paper. -
Subject Terms
Booker, J. -- Publisher. | Graham Island (Italy) -- Eruption, 1831. | Hullmandel, C. -- Printer. | Lithography -- Specimens -- 1831. | Natural history -- Italy -- Sicily. | Sicily (Italy) -- Description and travel. | Volcanoes -- Italy -- Sicily. | Volcanoes -- Mediterranean Region.
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