pigafetta antonio skelton (7 résultats)

Trade Paperback. Etat : 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.

Etat : Very Good. Illustrated (illustrateur). 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. Etat : 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.

Paperback. Etat : New.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : 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.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. 2 v. illus., maps (part col.) 30 cm. Vol. 1 consists of an introduction and a translation by R. A. Skelton of the French MS. entitled 'Navigation et descouurement de la Inde superieure et isles de Malucque ou naissent les cloux de girofle' Box number: SP0069 ; [1st ed.].

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.