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First edition of this translation, 8vo, 230 x 140mm, half-title, viii, [4], 365, [3]pp., 4 plates (2 folding of antiquities, including 1 large folding, and 2 of Sicily), errata/advert. leaf at end, occasional spotting, original publisherís cloth-backed boards, uncut. Kelsall, author, traveller, eccentric, and neo-classicist par excellence; an avid student of Cicero, his translation of Ciceroís prosecution of the notorious Sicilian governor Verres (for the wholesale pillage of temples and cities for statues, gems, etc., to add to his huge collections) is supplemented by a useful sixty-page essay on Sicily in which he offers fresh material, including plates of Enna and Hycarra not found in ìCluver, Mirabella, Arezzo, Houel or Wilkins, for the antiquities, and. Brydone, and Swinburne, for the description of the modern state of the island.î Not in Pine-Coffin; or Moncada.