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BRITO (J.J. Gomes de). RUAS de Lisboa. Lisboa. 1935. - BRITO (J.J. Gomes de) RUAS de Lisboa . Notas para a história das vias públicas lisbonenses, obra póstuma revista e prefaciada por António Baião. Lisboa: Livraria Sá da Costa, 1935. 3 v.; 225 mm. First and only edition, published posthumously twelve years after the author's death, revised and prefaced by António Baião, director of the Torre do Tombo Archive, who was a friend of Gomes de Brito and heir to his estate. José Joaquim Gomes de Brito (Lisbon, 1843 - Lisbon, 1923), bibliographer, Lisbon historian and archaeologist, graduated in Letters, was an employee of the Lisbon City Council and a founding member of the Lisbon Geographical Society. He collaborated with Brito Aranha and Álvaro Neves in the completion of the Dicionário Bibliographico Portuguez by Inocêncio Francisco da Silva, and published numerous studies of Lisbon history and topography in specialized periodicals throughout his life. He is considered the creator of toponymic studies within the scope of Lisbon geography. Streets of Lisbon: Notes for the History of Lisbon's Public Roads brings together the entries on toponymy accumulated by the author over decades, organized alphabetically by António Baião in 3 volumes covering the complete alphabet (A to L, M to S, T to Z), with the third volume complemented by a history of the parish churches and religious and conventual houses of Lisbon. A fundamental reference work on Lisbon toponymy, and the first work exclusively dedicated to Lisbon's urban toponymy. Sought after. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate