Album (untitled), 1826 Zf 8400-4260 raro VI The extensive album was compiled by an unknown woman around 1826. It combines handwritten excerpts of text fragments, mainly by English, French and Italian writers, and pictures of various kinds. Most of these are prints, with the exception of two gouaches on two consecutive pages, each depicting an […]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Italiänische Reise, II, Neapel, Stuttgart and Tübingen 1830 Fa 200-4300/2 raro III Goethe was no friend of volcanoes. As a convinced Neptunist, who basically regarded geological formations as oceanic sediments, he harboured an almost moral aversion to the volcanic formations produced in violent eruptions (“frightful and shapeless conglomeration of matter, which,

William Hamilton, Campi Phlegræi. Observations On The Volcanos Of The Two Sicilies As They have been communicated to the Royal Society of London, 2 Bde, Naples 1776 Be 3430-3760 raro IX Campi Phlegraei by the Scottish art collector and volcanologist Sir William Hamilton is one of the best-known eighteenth-century records of Vesuvius and its surroundings.

William Hamilton, Observations On Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, And Other Volcanos, London 1774 Fa 170-3741 raro III The Observations On Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, And Other Volcanos, first published in London in 1772, are based on the volcanological observations that Lord William Hamilton, a diplomat in the service of England based in Naples, communicated to

Friedrich Furchheim, Bibliografia del Vesuvio, compilata e corredata di note critiche estratte dai più autorevoli scrittori vesuviani; con un copioso indice metodico, Naples 1897 Be 4015-4970 Friedrich Furchheim’s ‘Vesuvius bibliography’ is the first and most important cataloguing tool covering Vesuvius. Born in Vienna, after studying comparative philology Furchheim moved to Naples, where he opened an

Giovanni Nicola Del Giudice, Viaggio medico ad Ischia, a Pozzuoli, a Castellamare, ed altrove, all’oggetto di analizzare le acque minerali e le stufe, Naples 1823 Be 4018-4230 raro IV The Neapolitan physician Giovanni Nicola del Giudice, who is known for two other publications on medical subjects, in the title emphasises the scientific nature of his

Giuseppe Maria Carusi, Tre passeggiate … ovvero Osservazioni sulla eruzione vesuviana del detto anno e sulla influenza sua verso gli esseri organizzati, Naples 1858 Zx 60-4580 raro IV Giuseppe Maria Carusi (1814-1892), a native of Baselice in the Benevento area, was a physician and natural scientist. He taught in Salerno and Naples and published on

John Phillips, Vesuvius, Oxford 1869 Be 4015-4690 raro III A professor of geology in London, Dublin and Oxford, curator of the Yorkshire Museum and of the Ashmolean Museum, John Phillips (1800-1874) also headed some of Britain’s most prestigious scientific institutions. Through his research into fossils he developed the first geological timescale diagram, helping to define

Jean Auldjo, Vues du Vésuve avec un précis des ses eruptions principales, Naples 1832 Be 4015-4320 raro III The explorer John Auldjo (1806-1886), born in Montreal to a Scottish family of Italian origin, achieved fame after participating in the ascent of Mont Blanc, recounted in his Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont

Notizen über den Vesuv und dessen Eruption v. 22. Oct. 1822. Gesammelt Von Dr. Joh. Bapt. Salvadori, verdeutscht durch C. F. C. H, Naples 1823 Be 4015-4231 raro IV Despite the fact that the work is listed under the Italian title “Notizie sopra il Vesuvio e l’eruzione dell’ottobre 1822” in the Bibliographie géologique 1881, p.