HAMILTON, Sir WILLIAM. Collection of Engravings from Ancient Vases mostly of pure Greek workmanship discovered in sepulchres in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies but chiefly in...Naples...now in the possession of Sir William Hamilton A. W. Tischbein 1791, vol. 1 (of 3), 486 x 378mm. (19 1/8 x 14 15/16in.), light foxing , 2 engraved titles in English and French, engraved dedication, 62 line engraved plates, text in English and French--HANCARVILLE, PIERRE FRANÇOIS HUGUES, dit D'. [A portfolio of plates from the Collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities ], [Francesco Morelli], 1767, 488 x 372mm. (19 1/4 x 14 5/8in.), tiny hole to plate 43, 2 marginal repairs, a few other marginal defects, 2 plates creased, occasional soiling, very occasional light marginal dampstaining , hand-colored engraved title (in French) to vol. 2, and 144 engraved plates, principally from vol. 2, of which 62 hand-colored, many double-page; both , Naples, folio, uniformly bound in modern quarter morocco, joints and extremities a bit rubbed . Cf. Blackmer 778 and 845. (2)
HAMILTON, Sir WILLIAM. Collection of Engravings from Ancient Vases mostly of pure Greek workmanship discovered in sepulchres in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies but chiefly in...Naples...now in the possession of Sir William Hamilton A. W. Tischbein 1791, vol. 1 (of 3), 486 x 378mm. (19 1/8 x 14 15/16in.), light foxing , 2 engraved titles in English and French, engraved dedication, 62 line engraved plates, text in English and French--HANCARVILLE, PIERRE FRANÇOIS HUGUES, dit D'. [A portfolio of plates from the Collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities ], [Francesco Morelli], 1767, 488 x 372mm. (19 1/4 x 14 5/8in.), tiny hole to plate 43, 2 marginal repairs, a few other marginal defects, 2 plates creased, occasional soiling, very occasional light marginal dampstaining , hand-colored engraved title (in French) to vol. 2, and 144 engraved plates, principally from vol. 2, of which 62 hand-colored, many double-page; both , Naples, folio, uniformly bound in modern quarter morocco, joints and extremities a bit rubbed . Cf. Blackmer 778 and 845. (2)
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