Description
Beautiful two-volume set, hardbound, cream cloth, spines lettered in gilt over red background, housed in publisher’s red cloth slipcase. RARE REFERENCE
A narrative of the account of the first circumnavigation by Ferdinand Magellan and Elcano as documented by Antonio Pigafetta (c. 1491-c. 1531), a Venetian scholar and explorer who was part of Magellan’s expedition.
Vol. I contains Pigafetta’s account as “translated and edited by R. A. Skelton from the manuscript
in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University.”; 195pp. with all texts and illustrated with all maps and other facsimiles.
Vol. II contains color facsimile of the Yale University manuscript which is a transcription of Pigafetta’s original manuscript, the latter of which is now thought to be lost.; unpaginated, with colour facsimiles throughout reproducing the original manuscript.
Only 2,000 copies of these volumes were printed by Yale University Press.
