Untergang der Stadt Messina, nebst ihrer Geschichte, Topographie und Statistik...Ingleichen eine kurze Beschreibung von den beyden feuerspeyenden Bergen Vesuv und Aetna. Mit Kupfern.

£500 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

A description of the terrible earthquake which destroyed Messina in 1783, a city so damaged that in 1787 when Goethe visited it, it was still largely in a ruined state. This anonymous report, which occupies pages 5-13 of the pamphlet, is stated in its preface to be based on a trustworthy Italian private report, and on various published sources. The account of the two volcanoes follows: Vesuvius (pp. 14-27) and Etna (pp. 27-28). The Ode on Gibraltar is anonymous. KVK records only 4 copies of the Messina, in Augsburg, Freising, Göttingen, and Trier. The Gibraltar Ode is held at the British Library, in Vienna, and a handful in Germany.

• Binding: Hardcover

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