Antichità Siciliane Spiegate Colle Notizie Generali Di Questo Regno Cui si comprende la Storia particolare di quelle Città, delle quali se ne riportano, ed illustrano separatamente gl'antichi Monumenti. Opera Del Padre D. Giuseppe Maria Pancrazi Cherico Regolare Teatino Patrizio Cortonese, Accademico Etrusco, e Socio Colombario Fiorentino. Tomo I. Diviso In Due Parti Nella prima si contengono le notizie generali di quest'Isola. Nella seconda la Pianta, le varie Vedute, e la Descrizione dell'antico Agrigento. Alla S.R.M. Di Carlo Re Delle Due Sicilie Di Gerusalemme &c. Infante Di Spagna, Duca Di Parma, Piacenza, Castro &c. Gran Principe Ereditario Di Toscana, &c. (II. Diviso In Due Parti Nella prima si contengono altre notizie generali di quest'Isola: nella seconda si principia a ragionare dei fatti degli Agrigentini, si descrive la magnificenza di essi, e si espongono in tante Tavole separate gl'antichi loro Monumenti nella maniera, che attualmente esistono. Alla S.R.M. Di Maria Amalia Regina Delle Due Sicilie Principessa Di Polonia, E Sassonia.)

Vol. I: [6], xxiii, [1], 102, [2], iii, [1], 86 p., frontis., port., [3] fold. maps, [2], 15, [1] pl. (many fold. or dble.): illus. (The pairs of pages xv, xvi and xxi, xxii do not carry page numbers or letter-press text, but each pair carries a full-page engraved illustration on one side (recto or verso) and is blank on its other side. We consider these to be in-text illustrations and do not list them among the plates, as they are included by the printer in his pagination and are presumably conjugate with the letter-press text.) - Vol. II: [6], vii, [1], 45, [3], iii, [1], 124 p., frontis., port., fold. map, 29 [i.e. 30, there being an unnumbered plate between nos. 28 and 29] pl. (many fold. or dble.): illus. (Pages vi, vii are misnumbered as ii, iii; pages 22, 23 as 21, 22; pages 77, [78] as 75, [76]. Many pages have blank versos - so that their texts march with the plates to which they relate.)

A publication-date of 1747 is carried by one of the folding maps in Volume I.

Each volume contains an allegoric frontispiece and a portrait of the dedicatee. In Volume I the first part is a history of Sicily consisting of an untitled preface ( preceded by a folding map and accompanied by two unnumbered plates) and four chapters of text. The second part is an archaeological account of Agrigento in three chapters, of which the first is preceded by a folding map of Agrigento and the third is accompanied by a folding map of Agrigento and plates most of which are topographic views.

In Volume II the first part, in two chapters, continues the history of Sicily. The second continues the account of Agrigento, in two chapters, preceded by a folding map and accompanied by topographic plates, elevations and plans. The plates are not picturesque views but archaeological records - plates 16 and 23 of Volume II are good examples of their almost photographic simplicity.

In-text illustrations consist of two full-page prints accompanying the address to the reader in Volume I, title-page vignettes, head- and tail-pieces and initials. The chapter headpieces by Vacca show a charming series of scenes from the story of Odysseus and the Cyclops.

Most plates carry their own dedications - the majority of them to Britons: John Malpas, Giovanni Leeland, George 3rd viscount Midleton, Thomas Hollis, Benjamin Lethieullier, John Bouverie, Lascelles Raymond Iremonger, 'Claudio Passavant', William Young, William Allen, Thomas Steavens, John Ward, Ld. Charlemont, Sir Thomas Kennedy, Thomas Brand, George Potter, James Dawkins, [William Legge] Ld. Dartmouth, [Thomas] Lennard Barrett, Augustus [John] Hervey, Nathaniel Thorold, [Frederick] Ld. North, and Joseph Henry.