8vo. 195 x 125 mm., [7 1/2 x 5 inches]. [10], 297 pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 20 half tone plates. Publisher's blue cloth, a few scrapes and nicks to the spine, otherwise sound and attractive copy. Engraved bookplate of Sarah Gilbert Wood.

Second edition, revised. This edition with illustrations and much more information on the Venetian estuary and the people who made it their home. "The chapters in the first edition which referred chiefly to the mainland of Venetia have been omitted, with a view to concentrating the work upon the city of Venice . . ."

Horatio Brown was a historian of Venice, author of a book on the origins of printing in the city, and collector. He dedicated this book "To my Gondolier Antonio Salin my Constant Companion in Venice and Venetia."

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Bookseller: De Simone Company, Booksellers (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1037
Title: Life on the Lagoons
Author: Brown, Horatio F
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Macmillian and Co.
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1894

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De Simone Company is presently offering rare books, manuscripts, illustrated books, broadsides, and ephemera documenting American history during the 19th century. We encourage you to visit our website where you will find numerous catalogues listing our offering. Visit www.desimonecompanybooksellers.com.De Simone Company also specializes in early Italian books and manuscripts, mostly in the fields of social science, history, antiquarian bibliography and illustrated books. The Company has a particular interest in books, manuscripts, ephemera printed in, or about, the history of Ferrara, Italy and is always interested in purchasing book on the subject.In January of 2017, Daniel De Simone retired from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D. C as the Eric Weinmann Librarian, where he directed the operations of the Central Library. De Simone came to the Folger from the Library of Congress after serving as the Curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division for 14 years.Before his appointment as Rosenwald Curator in 2000, he operated his own New York based bookselling business for 22 years. Since retirement he has begun bookselling once again and is again a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. He is also a member of the Grolier Club, NY, the Association Internationale de Bibliophile, Paris, and the Print Council of America.

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