Pigafetta Antonio Skelton (7 results)

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. 159 pages, colour frontispiece and colour facsimile plates. Dark blue cloth binding with decorative block design to front cover and gilt lettering to spine. Light stain to top of spine o/w to hinge of backboard o/w a lovely clean and bright copy. Appears unused. Slipcase with signs of wear from storage and handling. Overseas orders may require additional postage.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 195pp., index, biblio., notes, ill. Translation and edited by R.A. Skelton. Dover edition of the 1969 Yale original. Minimal wear, label to rear cover. Pigafetta's account "is the fullest, most valuable narrative of the voyage and one of the most important geographical documents known. In addition to naval and military battles and maneuvers, Pigafetta faithfully documented plants and animals, manners and customs, languages and geography of lands and seas never before seen by Europeans." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 2nd Impression. Hardback. Magellan's Voyage. Blue decorative cloth with gilt lettering. In a very good slip case. Slight browning to edge of slip case. The first circumnaviagtion of the globe by a sailing ship was an event much more astonishing to the minds of men in 1522 than, to the modern mind, the first orbiting of the earth by a man-made satellite in 1957. But when Magellan sailed with his fleet of five small ships from the Spanish port of San Lucar de Barrameda in September 1519 he had not conceived a voyage rould the world. Illustrated. 159 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Condition: Very Good. Illustrated (illustrator). Very Good condition. Slipcase Good. 2nd impression. From the collection of Charles Edward Roberts, owner and founder of Wonder Book & Video. With his signature on his personalized bookplate on front endpage verso. (Exploration, Voyages Around the World).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN . Hardback in slipcase. No dustjacket as issued. Later Printing. Very Good Condition. Tight sound copy with owners names on front front free endpaper, front and reverse sides, minor rubs to edges and corners of covers. Slipcase in very good condition also. No Signature.

New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 1969. 2 vols. [10],195 pp. 1 map, full-page ills. (= text vol.). + 99 col. facs. leaves. (= facsimile vol.). Orig. uniform hardcover (blindstamped cloth, gilt lettering on spines). In orig. cloth slipcase w. mounted col. plate. 4to. - Fine copy. Rare complete two volume set: Volume 1: translation; Volume 2: facsimile. - Translated and edited by R.A. Skelton from the manuscript in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University.