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Letter, 'An account of some antiquities dug up at Herculaneum' from Camillo Paderni to Richard Mead

Reference number: L&P/2/411

Date: 18 November 1752

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Subject: Antiquities

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Extract of a Letter from Signor Camillo Paderni, to Dr. Mead, concerning the Antiquities Dug up from the Antient Herculaneum, Dated from Naples, Nov. 18, 1752. Translated from the Italian'

Read 8 February 1753

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L&P/2/411
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18 November 1752
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4 pages
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Camillo Paderni

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Camillo Paderni, Letter, 'An account of some antiquities dug up at Herculaneum' from Camillo Paderni to Richard Mead, 18 November 1752, L&P/2/411, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_411/letter-an-account-of-some-antiquities-dug-up-at-herculaneum-from-camillo-paderni-to-richard-mead, accessed on 21 June 2025

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