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1872 Mount Vesuvius eruption...
1872 Mount Vesuvius eruption...
Item # 671955
May 17, 1872
THE NEW YORK HERALD, May 17, 1872
* Mount Vesuvius eruption
* Gulf of Naples, Italy
The top of page 5 has one column headings that include: "VESUVIUS" "'The Mountain Has Fallen In and Ever So Many People Are Killed'" "Opening Of A New Crater" "A Party of Explorers Destroyed by the Fiery Lava" "Two Hundred Lives Sacrificed" "Streams Of Lava Ten Feet Deep" and more. (see) Lengthy text.
Complete with 12 pages, a little margin wear, generally nice.
Category: Post-Civil War