[MOSER, BARRY, illustrator]. Ashen Sky: The Letters of Pliny the Younger on the Eruption of Vesuvius. Los Angeles: Getty Museum, [2007].
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[MOSER, BARRY, illustrator]. Ashen Sky: The Letters of Pliny the Younger on the Eruption of Vesuvius. Los Angeles: Getty Museum, [2007].
4to. Illustrated with wood engravings by Barry Moser; extra suite of wood-engraved plates in separate portfolio. Original pictorial boards; in dust jacket; extra suite of plates loose as issued in cloth chemise; housed together in a cloth clamshell case.
SPECIAL COPY, WITH AN ADDITIONAL SUITE OF PRINTS AND AN EXTRA SIGNED PROOF. Signed by Moser on front free endpaper. The signed proof is a wood-engraving of the map of the Bay of Naples.
Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser
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