Pompeii (Extinct city)

Scope and Contents This is a single-sheet advertising handbill for Burford's Panorama, Leicester Square, bearing the following text on its recto: "Burford's Panorama, Leicester Square. A sublime and beautiful view of Switzerland from Rigi Kulm also a view of the ruins of Pompeii, the city of the dead: and a view of Paris, taken during one of the most important periods of the recent political events" [the events refer to the French Revolution of 1848, also known as "February Revolution"]. On the verso, there...

Scope and Contents This brown leather notebook covers Lyell's activity from Ishcia to Naples. It contains geological notes on Herculaneum, Pompeii, Vesuvius; Notes on William Hamilton on great earthquakes in Calabria in 1782; 'Differences between geologist and ordinary observer'; 'Partial activity in the agents of change'; 'Migration'. The front cover plate reads "No 5 Italy 1828 Ischia to Naples Oct 31st to Nov. 15th." The following table of contents is...

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Notebook containing two lectures. Topics include William Cowper and Pompeii. Pencil inscription on front fly 'Rev. J. B. Athol Gordon?'. c.1900

154 numbered pages, remainder of notebook is blank.

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This series consists of five boxes of photographs showing scenes of Ireland, Paris, Switzerland, Rome, Pompei, Athens, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Cairo, Thebes, Abu Simbel, Nubia, Petra, and more.