Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Willem van de Velde the Younger, Willem van de Velde the Elder and Ludolf Bakhuizen. Balboa crossing Panama in 1513 to become the first European to see the Pacific from America, and the executioner's block that finished him six years later. Ober wrote a series of these lives from the Spanish sources. This edition is bound with 60 plates of painting by William Hodges, Frederic Edwin Church, Albert Bierstadt and J. M. W. Turner, and includes six illustrations restored and coloured for it.