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Helpful staff and a cute bookshop, a nice selection in English and a quier cafe at the very end. Good cake!
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Date of experience: September 2019
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8-drank-was-merry 🧳 🛫🍛🍻🍸🍨 wrote a review Oct 2019
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Livraria Ferin, which has the look and feel of an older bookstore than Bertrand, is the second oldest bookstore in Lisbon, established in 1840. They sell new books, but also used books, have an old book repair and binding service and have a small old working type set printing press from the 1600s. In the basement in the back right is where you can find the book press, many old books and the repair area. John Koenig wrote of the word he created (vellichor) and that it meant: the strange wistfulness of used bookstores, which are somehow infused with the passage of time — filled with thousands of old books you’ll never have time to read, each of which is itself locked in its own era, bound and dated and papered over like an old room the author abandoned years ago, a hidden annex littered with thoughts left just as they were on the day they were captured.…
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Date of experience: September 2019
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I visit everytime I go to Lisbon. Classic hard to find books. Excellent genealogy selection. Said to be the second oldest store in Lisbon.
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Date of experience: November 2018
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This is a great bookstore located in central Lisbon. They have a great section for English books and the staff is friendly. At the very back, there's also a small cafe. Very nice place to spend some time in if you like books.
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Date of experience: May 2018
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I always enjoy visiting bookstores around the world especially in this day and age when people aren't reading physical books and brick and mortar stores are disappearing. Friendly staff and there are books in English!
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Date of experience: April 2018
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