The Ships of Christopher Columbus. With contributions by Francesco Quieto - Cesare Ciano. Translated into English by Lucio Bertolazzi and Luciano F. Farina
by Gay, Franco, Cesare Ciano. Francesco Quieto, Aldo Ziggiotto, contributors
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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.
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- Title
- The Ships of Christopher Columbus. With contributions by Francesco Quieto - Cesare Ciano. Translated into English by Lucio Bertolazzi and Luciano F. Farina
- Author
- Gay, Franco, Cesare Ciano. Francesco Quieto, Aldo Ziggiotto, contributors
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 8824037682
- ISBN 13
- 9788824037686
- Publisher
- Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato / Libreria Dello Stato
- Place of Publication
- Rome
- Date Published
- 1992
- Bookseller catalogs
- Italy; Expeditions; Urban history; Shipbuilding; Fifteenth century;
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