The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2019. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A fine copy in a near fine jacket.
xiv, 318 pp. When Pliny the Elder perished at Stabiae during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, he left behind an enormous compendium of knowledge, his thirty-seven-volume Natural History.....