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18181764London 1818. First Edition 1818 - English. Full Leather. Very Good. unknown
18181818SSoLincoln's-Inn-Fields London: printed for the Author 1818. First edition of this translation. Leatherbound Hardcover. Very Good/no dj as issued. Full title: "The Travels of Marco Polo A Venetian in the Thirteenth Century Being a Description by That early traveller of remarkable places and things in the Eastern parts of the world." Translated from the Italian with notes by William Marsden F.RS. &c"<br /> <br /> <br /> Lincoln's-Inn-Fields London printed for the Author by Cox and Baylis 1818. 10.75" x 8.75 x 2.25" 27.6x22x5.5cm. LXXX781 1 1 errata 1 ad pages. With the fold-out map. Later very solid three-quarter polished calf over marbled boards marbled edges. Spine with 5 decorated bands and gilded title. Terracotta colored endpapers with a small bookstore label ISSEIDO Tokyo and ex-libris 'E. Bibl. Radcl.' Bodleian Library Radcliffe Science Library after 1773. Previous owners name on free endpaper with date Nov. 1943. Folding map in excellent undamaged condition opposite title page. Some offsetting of the map on title page. Pages clean and undamaged no spots or foxing.<br /> <br /> <br /> From the library of a gentleman who was a rare book dealer in Bangkok in the 1970's and 80's after his military service in Vietnam. <br /> <br /> <br /> Indisputably the best translation of this classic work of travel and exploration of Marco Polo 1254-1324 a Venetian merchant traveler whose recorded travels did much to introduce Europeans to Central Asia and China. The influence of Marco Polo's journey to and residence in China in the thirteenth century was profound. Marco Polo's narrative was to reveal to the West the wealth and great size of the Mongol Empire and China in the Yuan Dynasty giving the first comprehensive look into China Persia India Japan and other Asian cities and countries. . printed for the Author hardcover
184718065Venedig, (Naratovich), 1847. LXIV, 484 S. 1 mehrfach gefalt. lithograph. Karte. 8°. HLdr. der Zeit mit Rückentitel (bestoßen und stark beschabt).
