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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Buckram, 232 pages, illustrations (some colour), plans; 28 cm. Reprint, 1973. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. Dust jacket worn at extremities. Profusely illustrated. *** "This book explores the life led by their inhabitants of Pompeii and Herculaneum, before their existence was brutally cut short by the eruption of Vesuvius, wiping out these two cities in 79.A.D." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: 1. History of Pompeii; 2. The volcano roused; 3. The dead cities revived; 4. Pompeii formerly and today; 5. Business, work and recreation; 6. The life of the people; 7. The Pompeiians at home; 8. The Necropoles 9. Herculaneum; 10. Art at Pompeii and Herculaneum. Size: 4to.

Hardcover. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Dust jacket. First Edition. There is an additional suite of 8 hand coloured etchings (numbered 1533/3000), each signed in pencil by Fuchs. All presented in a purple silk-covered box with a large gilt facsimile of Fuchs' signature. A very small pressure mark to rear top edge of box and a few very small white dots. Fine in near fine dj with light crease to front flap, in fine box. Signed by Author.