EPAL - Empresa Portuguesa das Águas Livres, 2011. 128pp. Original stiff pictorial wraps. Small gift inscriptionto title-page and signed by Pedro Inácio.Text appears to be Portuguese. Illustrated (photographs throughout). Text in English. Pages are clean (unmarked) but slighty age-toned. Binding is tight and secure. Covers are scuffed/slightly soiled with bumping to upper corners, crease to lower left rear corner, rubbing to extremities. The twenty-two aqueducts in this book are the result of a work produced for the newspaper Águas Livres which, between February 2007 and November 2008, published twenty articles corresponding to a brief study and its photographic survey. From this research, some curiosities related to the history and construction of these water monuments stand out. Thus, and in chronological terms, the oldest of the aqueducts studied is the Roman one at Conímbriga, built in the 17th century. I AD The most modern is the Alviela, inaugurated in 1880. The rest, with the exception of the Nova Janelas aqueduct, in Ponta Delgada, from 1830, were built between the 15th and 18th centuries. Nice reading copy. . Oversized Softcover with Flaps. Good -/No Jacket as Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

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Bookseller: after-words bookstore (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 142879
Title: Aquedutos De Portugal Arte e Patrimonio
Author: Pedro Inacio
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Good -
Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued
ISBN 10: 9898490012
ISBN 13: 9789898490018
Publisher: EPAL - Empresa Portuguesa das Águas Livres
Date Published: 2011
Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
Keywords: Photography Portugal
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