Antonio Pigafetta's Account on the First Voyage around the World

MS L 103 sup. Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Milan, Italy)

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Alternative Titles: Noticia del Primer Viaje en Torno al Mundo
Antonio Pigafettas Bericht über die erste Weltumsegelung
Type: Manuscript on paper
Size / Format: 264 pages / 27.4 × 20.7 cm
Origin: Italy
Date: Ca. 1525
Epochs: Late Middle Ages Onwards
Style: Renaissance
Genre: Geography / Maps
Language: Italian
Illustrations: 23 colored illustrations, mostly sketched maps, often full-page
Content: Antonio Pigafetta's account of the first circumnavigation of the world led by Ferdinand Magellan (1519–1522) and a treatise on the terrestrial sphere and the art of navigation

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Facsimile Editions

#1 Noticia del Primer Viaje en Torno al Mundo

Ediciones Grial – Valencia, 1998

Publisher: Ediciones Grial – Valencia, 1998

Limited Edition: 921 copies

Commentary: 1 volume by Mario Pozzi and Ana García Herráez
Language: Spanish

1 volume: Exact reproduction of the original document (extent, color and size) Reproduction of the entire original document as detailed as possible (scope, format, colors). The binding may not correspond to the original or current document binding.

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