Magellan’s Voyage: A Narrative Account of the First Circumnavigation. Vol. 1: Translated and edited by R. A. Skelton from the Manuscript. Vol. 2: A Facsimile of the Manuscript.

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A narrative of the account of the first circumnavigation. Beautiful two-volume set about Ferdinand Magellan’s circumnavigation of the world 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., hardbound, cream cloth, spines lettered in gilt over red background, housed in the publisher’s red cloth slipcase with pictorial cover label, with texts and illustrated with all maps and other facsimiles. REFERENCE.
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, hardbound, cream cloth, spines lettered in gilt over red background, housed in the publisher’s red cloth slipcase with pictorial cover label, with colour facsimiles throughout reproducing the original manuscript. SCARCE REFERENCE.