The Escapes Of Latude And Casanova From Prison
Casanova
£5.00
The Escapes Of Latude And Casanova From Prison
Henri Masers de Latude
Giacomo Casanova
Published by T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1892, as part of 'The Adventure Series'. Hardback. No dust jacket. Red boards. Approx 21cm H x 15cm W. x, 423pp plus publisher's catalogue; 5 b/w plates (1 missing).
Condition: Used. Good. Inside clean with no annotations or tears; Neat ink inscription and date (1892) of original owner; One plate missing. Outside has some marking, head and tail of spine bumped; Small hole in the spine.
Contains two separate accounts of amazing escapes from prison. Latude's escapes from the Bastille in the middle of the eighteenth century. And Casanova, an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice who escaped from the Doge's Palace in 1755.