The most noble and famous travels of Marco Polo : together with the travels of Nicolò de' Conti / edited from the Elizabethan translation of John Frampton, with introduction, notes and appendices by N. M. Penzer, M.A.
1937, Revised Edition. London : A. and C. Black. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss to the upper edge) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. The text is bright and clean overall, but with significant foxing concentrated in the preliminary leaves (incl folding map). The binding remains tight and sharp-cornered. A well-preserved example. Item #452630
Physical description; xiv, 381 pages, maps (1 folded), facsimile ; 24 cm. Notes; "First published 1929 by the Argonaut press in an edition limited to 1050 copies. Second edition, enlarged, 1937." With facsimile reproduction of title-page of the first edition of Frampton's translation, London, 1579. Contents; The travels of Marco Polo.--The travels of Nicolò de' Conti in the East.--Selected passages from Ramusio, &c. Subjects; Polo, Marco (1254-1323?). Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800. Asia -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800. Mongols -- History -- Early works to 1800.
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