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The best sea books
in the heart of Milan
since 1976

From time to time we like to entrust the waves of the sea with a message in the bottle. If you want to receive it…

Our history

La Libreria del Mare was born in the Seventies and is located inside an ancient grocery store in the heart of Milan. Today the bookshop boasts a selection of almost 10000 books and other items, obviously including nautical charts and pilot books. In addition, La Libreria del Mare promotes seafaring culture through a series of meetings with the most successful authors in the field. Among others: Giovanni Soldini, Bjorn Larsson, Simone Perotti, Davide Besana, Elisabetta Eordegh and Carlo Auriemma… Finally, the bookshop collaborates with numerous public and private institutions (BookCity Milano, Municipality of Milan, Ocean Film Festival Italia and Urban Blue City Milan).

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Katsushika Hokusai: The Great Wave Spiral Bound Pocket Notebook

Spiral Bound Pocket Notebooks from Flame Tree offer the practicality of spiral binding with the beauty of artistic, quality design. With stunning covers featuring much-loved art embellished with foil detailing, pages that lie flat or flip over for ease of use and an elastic fastening to keep it securely closed, these pocket-sized notebooks are ideal for making lists and taking notes wherever you are. Made using FSC-certified paper and board, with lined cream pages. The most notable period in Ho…
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Portofino – Italy

The seaside towns along the Ligurian coast are iconic places, admired and loved all over the world, which have always fostered creativity and imagination. The colourful houses and the beauty of the landscapes intertwine with local history and culture, offering an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists, dreamers and travellers. ART Travel Collection presents a unique collection of artistic illustrations, featuring a series of exclusive drawings by the artist FerdiDeBrug. High-quality di…
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Portovenere – Italy

The seaside towns along the Ligurian coast are iconic places, admired and loved all over the world, which have always fostered creativity and imagination. The colourful houses and the beauty of the landscapes intertwine with local history and culture, offering an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists, dreamers and travellers. ART Travel Collection presents a unique collection of artistic illustrations, featuring a series of exclusive drawings by the artist FerdiDeBrug. High-quality di…
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Tellaro – Golfo dei Poeti

The seaside towns along the Ligurian coast are iconic places, admired and loved all over the world, which have always fostered creativity and imagination. The colourful houses and the beauty of the landscapes intertwine with local history and culture, offering an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists, dreamers and travellers. ART Travel Collection presents a unique collection of artistic illustrations, featuring a series of exclusive drawings by the artist FerdiDeBrug. High-quality di…
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Tellaro – Golfo dei Poeti

he seaside towns along the Ligurian coast are iconic places, admired and loved all over the world, which have always fostered creativity and imagination. The colourful houses and the beauty of the landscapes intertwine with local history and culture, offering an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists, dreamers and travellers. ART Travel Collection presents a unique collection of artistic illustrations, featuring a series of exclusive drawings by the artist FerdiDeBrug. High-quality dig…
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Tellaro – Golfo dei Poeti

The seaside towns along the Ligurian coast are iconic places, admired and loved all over the world, which have always fostered creativity and imagination. The colourful houses and the beauty of the landscapes intertwine with local history and culture, offering an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists, dreamers and travellers. ART Travel Collection presents a unique collection of artistic illustrations, featuring a series of exclusive drawings by the artist FerdiDeBrug. High-quality di…
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Cinque Terre – Vernazza

The seaside towns along the Ligurian coast are iconic places, admired and loved all over the world, which have always fostered creativity and imagination. The colourful houses and the beauty of the landscapes intertwine with local history and culture, offering an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists, dreamers and travellers. ART Travel Collection presents a unique collection of artistic illustrations, featuring a series of exclusive drawings by the artist FerdiDeBrug. High-quality di…
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Portofino – Italy

The seaside towns along the Ligurian coast are iconic places, admired and loved all over the world, which have always fostered creativity and imagination. The colourful houses and the beauty of the landscapes intertwine with local history and culture, offering an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists, dreamers and travellers. ART Travel Collection presents a unique collection of artistic illustrations, featuring a series of exclusive drawings by the artist FerdiDeBrug. High-quality di…
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Golfo dei Poeti – Lerici

The seaside towns along the Ligurian coast are iconic places, admired and loved all over the world, which have always fostered creativity and imagination. The colourful houses and the beauty of the landscapes intertwine with local history and culture, offering an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists, dreamers and travellers. ART Travel Collection presents a unique collection of artistic illustrations, featuring a series of exclusive drawings by the artist FerdiDeBrug. High-quality di…
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Liguria – Laigueglia

The seaside towns along the Ligurian coast are iconic places, admired and loved all over the world, which have always fostered creativity and imagination. The colourful houses and the beauty of the landscapes intertwine with local history and culture, offering an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists, dreamers and travellers. ART Travel Collection presents a unique collection of artistic illustrations, featuring a series of exclusive drawings by the artist FerdiDeBrug. High-quality di…
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Portovenere – Italy

The seaside towns along the Ligurian coast are iconic places, admired and loved all over the world, which have always fostered creativity and imagination. The colourful houses and the beauty of the landscapes intertwine with local history and culture, offering an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists, dreamers and travellers. ART Travel Collection presents a unique collection of artistic illustrations, featuring a series of exclusive drawings by the artist FerdiDeBrug. High-quality di…
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Tellaro – Golfo dei Poeti

The seaside towns along the Ligurian coast are iconic places, admired and loved all over the world, which have always fostered creativity and imagination. The colourful houses and the beauty of the landscapes intertwine with local history and culture, offering an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists, dreamers and travellers. ART Travel Collection presents a unique collection of artistic illustrations, featuring a series of exclusive drawings by the artist FerdiDeBrug. High-quality di…
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Tellaro – Golfo dei Poeti

The seaside towns along the Ligurian coast are iconic places, admired and loved all over the world, which have always fostered creativity and imagination. The colourful houses and the beauty of the landscapes intertwine with local history and culture, offering an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists, dreamers and travellers. ART Travel Collection presents a unique collection of artistic illustrations, featuring a series of exclusive drawings by the artist FerdiDeBrug. High-quality di…
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La guerra con la Francia

Il 14 Giugno 1940, dopo soli quattro giorni dall’entrata in guerra dell’Italia, una formazione navale francese salpata da Tolone e composta dagli incrociatori pesanti Dupleix e Colbert e dai cacciatorpediniere Vautour e Albatros e altre unità prese a cannonate la zona industriale di Genova, tra Sestri Ponente e Arenzano, oltre agli impianti industriali di Savona e Vado Ligure. La reazione delle batterie costiere italiane danneggiò gravemente il Caccia Albatros, mentre…
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Liguria – Laigueglia

The seaside towns along the Ligurian coast are iconic places, admired and loved all over the world, which have always fostered creativity and imagination. The colourful houses and the beauty of the landscapes intertwine with local history and culture, offering an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists, dreamers and travellers. ART Travel Collection presents a unique collection of artistic illustrations, featuring a series of exclusive drawings by the artist FerdiDeBrug. High-quality di…
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I grandi convogli britannici per il rifornimento di Malta dell’estate 1941

Le operazioni Substance e Stile, Mincemeat e Halberd, trattate in modo esaustivo in questa pubblicazione di Francesco Mattesini, si svolsero nel Mediterraneo Occidentale tra la terza decade di luglio e la terza decade del Settembre 1941. Il risultato degli attacchi fu soddisfacente, dal momento che gli aerosiluranti italiani ottennero successi importanti, colpendo e danneggiando gravemente cinque navi, due delle quali affondate. I Bombardieri della Regia Aeronautica danneggiarono gravemente un…
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Cinque Terre – Vernazza

The seaside towns along the Ligurian coast are iconic places, admired and loved all over the world, which have always fostered creativity and imagination. The colourful houses and the beauty of the landscapes intertwine with local history and culture, offering an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists, dreamers and travellers. ART Travel Collection presents a unique collection of artistic illustrations, featuring a series of exclusive drawings by the artist FerdiDeBrug. High-quality di…
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La Battaglia di Capo Teulada – 27 Novembre 1940

L’opera, frutto di anni di ricerca negli archivi militari, si basa su una vastissima documentazione italiana e straniera ed esamina la strategia navale italiana dopo lo scontro di Punta Stilo e dopo la notte di Taranto. Ricostruisce in modo preciso e dettagliato la Battaglia di Capo Teulada, condotta tra la flotta italiana e la squadra navale britannica di Gibilterra, portando alla scoperta di un episodio che occupa una posizione importante nella storiografia della guerra nel Mediterraneo…
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Cinque Terre – Vernazza

The seaside towns along the Ligurian coast are iconic places, admired and loved all over the world, which have always fostered creativity and imagination. The colourful houses and the beauty of the landscapes intertwine with local history and culture, offering an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists, dreamers and travellers. ART Travel Collection presents a unique collection of artistic illustrations, featuring a series of exclusive drawings by the artist FerdiDeBrug. High-quality di…
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Dalle operazioni britanniche “Excess” e “MC.4” al bombardamento navale di Genova

Questo libro è suddiviso in due parti, e riguarda, in modo esaustivo, la pianificazione e la condotta di due operazioni navali britanniche (Excess e Grog), che si svolsero con alterna fortuna. L’Operazione Excess, che era stata pianificata e fu poi realizzata, riguardò il passaggio di un convoglio di quattro grossi e veloci piroscafi, provenienti da Clyde, nella Scozia sud-occidentale, uno dei quali raggiunse il Porto di Malta e gli altri tre il porto greco del Pireo, scaric…
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Barca Pulita

Barca Pulita is a 44 foot ketch with low environmental impact; her crew experiments new technologies for renewable energy conversion on board. For more than thirty years Elisabetta Eordegh and Carlo Auriemma have been looking for those islands where no one arrives in the middle of the oceans… And they got to the most remote and improbable corners of the planet, showing the treasures hidden in those hard-to-reach places.

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