Rif: 238985
AA. VV.Il Ponte del Littorio
Venezia, Zanetti 1934 - Prima edizione (First Edition)
With numerous photographic illustrations in the text, 22 folded plates with designs by engineer Eugenio Miozzi, 11 sepia-toned plates on card stock with drawings by Cesare Mainella, and 3 folded colour plates. Preface by the Podestà of Venice, Mario Alverà
Beautiful dark grey paper binding with a plate by Gorgon Tanozzi, an illustrator active in Venice in the 1920s and 1930s and creator of posters for exhibitions and commercial signs in the typical Art Deco style. Endpapers decorated with symbols of Venice and the fasces
Cm 35x25,5, pp. 278 + tavole Rilegato (hardback) Mancanze alla carta delle copertine e del dorso. Timbro di apartenenza alla prima pagina. Tavole stampate su carta pesante con fioriture (Defects in the covers and spine with loss of paper. Ownership stamp on the first page. Plates printed on heavy paper Molto buono (Very Good)Rare work published a year after the inauguration of the Ponte del Littorio (now Ponte della Libertà), which connects the mainland to Venice. The bridge was inaugurated on 25 April 1933 for the feast of St. Mark, and construction began in July 1931.
€1000