Description
This deluxe edition, especially for bibliophiles, including two witnesses “first person” the first voyage of circumnavigation of Earth, who carried out Fernando de Magallanes and Juan Sebastian Elcano between 1519 and 1522: firstly, the Italian Antonio Pigafetta , protruding from the ship “Victoria”, which is the only thing that counts the entire trip; on the other, written by Navy Pilot Francisco Albo. The first is filled with data from both the life aboard the ships, as they visited land, its inhabitants and customs, spices, etc., while in the second nautical and astronomical data predominate a trip by seas hitherto unknown.
Special deluxe edition for bibliophiles held in Madrid in 2007. Format 24 x 33 cm in 2 beautiful volumes with case. Binding simile-ante, with stampings dry and gold. Volume I with XLVII pages, 150 pages, 3 sheets, with text by Antonio Pigafetta, accompanied by 4 double color maps Angel Roncero, based on those by Joan Martines in the sixteenth century and numerous drawings and vignettes drawn works Theodore de Bry. Entering Manuel Lucena Giraldo, adaptation of the text and notes by Francisco Calero. Printing on ahuesado Laid thread. Volume II with 2 leaves, 40 pages printed on aged paper. Margins adorned with nautical and astronomical drawings, and four double maps of the first volume. Includes Course of Francisco Albo, Elcano wrote the letter to the Emperor Charles V informing the completion of travel, two lists with the names of the surviving sailors and several vocabularies.
Limited edition of 750 numbered, printed and bound copies with craftsmanship. Exemplary new, brand new.
This work, although it is independent, is part of the trilogy of the New World, especially fancy formatting for bibliophiles, together with the Journal of Columbus and Conquest of New Spain works, also available right here.
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