Disegni intagliati in rame di pitture antiche ritrovate nelle scavazioni di Resina
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This book is the first Bourbon publication of the earliest finds from the site of Herculaneum, a Roman town on the Bay of Naples that was covered in pyroclastic flow from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Made for Charles VII, king of Naples and Sicily, in 1746, eight years after the official royal excavations began on the Bourbon-owned site, it illustrates 96 objects with fine engravings by 5 artists. It is one of only three complete copies known to exist.
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