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MESQUITA (Alfredo). PORTUGAL Pittoresco e Illustrado: Lisboa. Lisboa. 1903. - MESQUITA (Alfredo) PORTUGAL Pittoresco e Illustrado: Lisboa . Compilação e Estudo por [...]. Lisboa: Empreza da Historia de Portugal, 1903. X-636 pp.: il.; 290 mm. First edition of this monograph on Lisbon, profusely illustrated with four hundred black and white engravings in the text, representing urban aspects, monuments, customs and figures of Lisbon, many of which had already disappeared by the time of publication of the second edition. Compilation and study by Alfredo Mesquita, journalist and Lisbon historian who was one of the most astute observers of Lisbon life in the transition from the 19th to the 20th century. One of the most esteemed titles in the extensive bibliography of Lisbon, constituting a first-rate iconographic and literary document for understanding the city at the turn of the century. The work had a second edition in 1987 and a third in 2006. Sought after. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate