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[4], 148 + [8] plates. Illustrated with 8 plates, including one folding of Professor Palmieri's Seismographic Appraratus. 9½x6, rebound in modern blue cloth, original gilt-tooled blue cloth portion of front cover to front cover, spine lettered in gilt, new endpapers; bound by John Sinkankas with his gilt initials to lower front cover. First Edition.

Palmieri was the director at the Vesuvius Observatory and witnessed first-hand the events of 1872 with the aid of his invented seismograph and bifilar electrometer. Bookplate from the library of John Sinkankas to front pastedown.