Digital Collections | AMNH - Campi Phlegraei : observations on the volcanos of the Two Sicilies by Sir William Hamilton, 1776

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Eruption of Mount Vesuvius, seen from Naples, 1776, from Hamilton's Campi phlegraei

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Hamilton observing Somma Vesuvius in full eruption from Hamilton's Campi Phlegraei: observations on the volcanos of the Two Sicilies

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Volcanic rock samples and jeweled pin from Hamilton's Campi Phlegraei :observations on the volcanos of the Two Sicilies

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Hamilton sharing observations with colleagues in Naples from Hamilton's Campi Phlegraei: observations on the volcanos of the Two Sicilies

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Hamilton walking through Monte Somma crater from Hamilton's Campi Phlegraei: observations on the volcanos of the Two Sicilies

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Frontispiece depicting several Vesuvius eruptions from Hamilton's 1779 Supplement to the Campi Phlegraei

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Interior view of Mount Vesuvius, Seen from Naples, Campi Phlegraei, Plate 10

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Hamilton surveying a site on Somma-Vesuvius from Hamilton's Campi Phlegraei: observations on the volcanos of the Two Sicilies

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Hamilton surveying a site on Mount Vesuvius from Hamilton's Campi Phlegraei: observations on the volcanos of the Two Sicilies

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Somma-Vesuvius in winter, with horse-drawn carriage, from Hamilton's Campi Phlegraei: observations on the volcanos of the Two Sicilies

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Somma-Vesuvius in full eruption at night from Hamilton's Supplement to the Campi Phlegraei

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Penguin. Herbert, Thomas, Sir. From Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Africa the great. London, 1638. Page 13.

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Bison, A Continuation of a new discovery of a vast country in America

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The Mock Bird on Dogwood Tree Branch by Mark Catesby, from The Natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, London, 1771, Vol. I

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Quagga by William Cornwallis Harris, from Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa, London, 1840

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Thylacine cynocephalus (Tasmanian wolf), Original drawings by Charles Hamilton Smith, Vol. II

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Seleucides nigricans, by W. Hart, from Monograph of the birds of paradise and bower birds

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Paradisea raggiana, lithograph by W. Hart, from Monograph of the birds of paradise and bower birds

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Codex Florentino: Lam CXXXII, No.891, Aztec Homes: Two-story house of stone and adobe from Historia de las Cosas de Nueva Espana

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Paradisea intermedia, by W. Hart from Monograph of the birds of paradise and bower birds

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