Spectacular series of plates recording in chromolithography the murals and art of the ancient Italian city of Pompeii, devastated by earthquake and volcano. Each of the plates are numbered in the upper right corner in pencil. The work is in two part, the first part as titled above, with 24 plates as listed in the table of contents, the second part, titled "Choix de plus Belles et Interessantes Peintures de Pompei," without text or plate list, has plates numbered in pencil 25-75, but there is no plate numbered 38. Each plate has a tissue guard.