MAGELLAN'S VOYAGE A NARRATIVE ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION

New Haven and London: Yale Univ. Press, 1969. Two volumes. Quarto. Cream cloth, lettered in gilt on crimson spine label. Black & white plates, and full color facsimile of manuscript. Invitation to book launch reception laid in. Enclosed in a double-slotted crimson cloth slipcase with decorative label. Label has small lift at lower right edge, else set is nearly fine. First edition in this format. Volume one contains several illustrations, a foreword by Herman Liebert, an introduction by R.A. Skelton, a translation, notes, bibliography and an index. Volume Two contains a full- color facsimile of one of the four surviving hand-lettered illustrated manuscripts, this being the manuscript formerly in the Sir Thomas Phillipps collection, and now at Yale. The printing was executed by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, in Haarlem. (Inventory #: WRCLIT73083)