The Ships of Christopher Columbus. With contributions by Francesco Quieto - Cesare Ciano. Translated into English by Lucio Bertolazzi and Luciano F. Farina
Rome: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato / Libreria Dello Stato, 1992. Hardcover. Unblemished copy. 309p., hardbound in 12x8.5 inch decorated boards, text illustrated by numerous diagrams (how rudder was constructed; how the ballast stones looked) some large folded plans, mostly theoretical, how the Nina and Pinta et alia were made. Several diagrams are pictorial. FYI: spine titling of Text states it to be "Volume vII" and so it is, but of a larger set devoted to Italian discovery of America. Ministry of Cultural and environmental assets.
Cat.No: 277013
ISBN: 8824037682
Price: $45.00
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