[Bayardi (Ottavio Antonio, editor)] The Antiquities of Herculaneum, translated by Thomas Martyn and John Lettice, first English edition, list of subscribers, engraved map, 3 head- & tail-pieces and 50 plates, 2 folding, errata leaf at end, title slightly shorter and mounted on stub, light offsetting from plates, occasional soiling or staining, wormhole to upper margin affecting corner of a few plates, contemporary signature cut away from head of front free endpaper, old pencil note "Lot 155 at sale of Dr Sheffield's effects...about 1884-5" on front pastedown, contemporary mottled calf, a little rubbed, skilfully rebacked preserving handsome old gilt spine and red morocco label, corners repaired, 4to, for S.Leacroft, 1773.

⁂ A translation of vol.I of Le antichita di Ercolano esposte edited by Ottavio Antonio Bayardi, published by the Reale Accademia Ercolanese di Archeologia of Naples in 1757; no more volumes were published. Matthew Boulton, David Garrick, Thomas Pennant and Josiah Wedgwood all appear in the list of subscribers.