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Sir William Hamilton
5 July 2005, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£250 - £300
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Autograph letter (in the third person) by Scipione Breislak, to Sir William Hamilton, hailing him as "il Plinio de' Campi Flegrie" and presenting him with "una piccola serie de' prodotti vulcanici specialmente delle Isole di Procita e d'Ischia", docketed by Hamilton, one page, 4to, on light blue paper, integral blank, torn at the left edge where formerly mounted, prior to 1803
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Scipione Breislak, the Swedish geologist and vulcanologist, was author of Voyages physiques et lythologiques dans la Campanie (1801) and other geological works. It was partly in his honour, as the first geologist to map the region, that the important fossil Skipionyx samniticus - aka 'Skippy the Dinosaur' - was named in 1998.

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