Philip Carteret Webb: 'An Account of a Copper Table: Contain...

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Philip Carteret Webb: 'An Account of a Copper Table: Containing Two Inscriptions, in the Greek and Latin Tongues. Discovered in the year 1732, Near Heraclea, in the Bay of Tarentum, in Magna Graeca..., Read at a Meeting of the Society of Antiquaries of London, the 13 December 1759; and Ordered to be Printed', London, 1760, 1st edition, 10pp., two double-page eng. plts. and one single page eng. plt. Scarce disbound pamphlet of this historical and paleographic study regarding a copper table discovered in Heraclea, Magna Graecia. Magna Graecia is the coastal areas of modern day Southern Italy and includes Campania, Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria and Sicily. Written by English barrister, and key figure in the 18th century antiquarian movement, Philip Carteret Webb.

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