Description
453 pp., illustrated with maps, decorated map endpapers, full-page cartographics. Original publisher’s dark green cloth, gilt embossed front cover (galleon) and spine. EXTREMELY RARE.
This is the very hard to find 1939 first paperback edition. Collector’s item specially in this condition.
The definitive work on its subject, spanning 250 years of history. Based largely on archival sources, this scholarly book documents the Manila galleons, i.e., the Spanish trading ships that crossed the Pacific Ocean from Manila, Philippines, to Acapulco, Mexico and back from 1565 to 1815. The book remains a cornerstone in the historiography of early trans-Pacific commerce and Global Trade; it is very much in demand by treasure hunters in that it documents each of the Manila galleons lost.
