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Pompeii: Monuments Past and Present • A. de Franciscis • ARCHAEOLOGY • OUT OF PRINT • In this volume, Pompeii is shown first as it looks today and, via overlaid acetate illustrations, as it looked before the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. An intuitive method of relating past and present. (ITL423, $24.95)
Volcanoes, Fire From the Earth • Maurice Krafft • NATURAL HISTORY • OUT OF PRINT • This illustrated pocket encyclopedia in the Discoveries series, featuring hundreds of full color paintings, traces the study of volcanoes from early myth and legend to modern science. By the great French volcanologist (who died on the job on Mount Unzen in Japan in 1992). (GEO06, $12.95)

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