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“Every day, a first-time visitor to Venice will enquire about the most direct route to his or her hotel. 'The shortest or the most beautiful℃' I once overheard the concierge at the Hotel Des Bains respond. The tourist who chose the most beautiful route is still wandering the streets. This is a unique photobook in which to wander and lose oneself.” - Serge Simonart Venice is already the subject of thousands of unremarkable travel guides and photo books. Only an original and tactile collector's item can lay claim to a worthy place in today's Google age. This evocative book is brimming with a wealth of Venetian memorabilia: nineteenth-century photographs, engravings, hand-coloured magic lantern slides, antique postcards, old luggage labels and keys for long-lost luxury hotels, eighteenth-century gold ducats, antiquarian erotica, masks, invitations to Carnival balls, and the list goes on. Neither a travel guide nor a summary of unmissable sights, Venezia takes readers...