The City of the Sea. Harper's New Monthly Magazine.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1872. Item #1103
8vo. pp. 481 - 501. Illustrated with wood engravings, including a map of Venice, four full-page architectural views, and nine wood engravings in the text. Original printed wrappers, chipped at spine but a sound an not unattractive copy.
Anonymous twenty page description of Venice which captures for the American public the history and romance of La Serenissima, including images of the most famous palazzi the Doge's Palace. This issue of the Magazine also includes a biography of Edgar Allan Poe, an essay on the political character of modern Greeks, and the concluding chapter of Anthony Trollope's The Golden Lion of Granpere, to name a few of the articles.
Price: $50.00