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Title

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 appendixes by N.M. Penzer ...

Author

Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?

Publication

London, The Argonaut Press, 1929.

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Additional Authors

• Conti, Nicolò de, active 15th century.
• Ramusio, Giovanni Battista, 1485-1557.
• Frampton, John, active 1577-1596.
• Penzer, N. M. (Norman Mosley), 1892-
• Fernández de Santaellla, Rodrigo, active 1503.
• Marsden, William, 1754-1836.
• Pagio Bracciolini, Giovanni Francesco, 1380-1459.
• John Shaw Billings Memorial Collection.

Description

lx, 381 p., 1 l. facsim., col'd front., maps.; 4to.

Subject

• Voyages and travels
• Mongols > History
• Asia > Description and travel

Note

• The text is reprinted from the London edition of 1579, translated from the Spanish version of Santaella which was printed at Seville in 1503; Santaella made his translation from the Venetian ms. (dated 1493) now in the Biblioteca del Seminario in Seville.
• Facsimile of original t.-p. reads: The most noble and famous trauels of Marcus Paulus, one of the nobilitie of the state of Venice, into the East partes of the world ... Translated into English. At London: Printed by Ralph Nevvbery, 1579.
• Frampton's translation of Nicolò de' Conti is from the Castilian translation made by Santaella from Poggio's "De Varietate Fortunae libri quatuor."
• Appendix I consists of Penzer's notes to Frampton's text; Appendix II (p. [263]-341) is made up of selected passages from Ramusio (1559) as translated by Marsden, 1818.
• Colophon: This edition of The travels of Marco Polo and of Nicolò de' Conti is the sixth publication of the Argonaut Press and is limited to 1050 copies on Japon vellum, numbered 1 to 1050. The original woodcut appearing on the title-page is by William Monk ... The volume has been printed by Walter Lewis ... at the University Press, Cambridge, in the year 1929.

Call Number

*KP (Argonaut) (Polo, M. Most noble and famous travels of Marco Polo)

LCCN

30015929

OCLC

1525448

Author

Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?

Title

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 appendixes by N.M. Penzer ...

Imprint

London, The Argonaut Press, 1929.

Local Note

This copy is number 335.

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Added Author

Conti, Nicolò de, active 15th century.

Ramusio, Giovanni Battista, 1485-1557.

Frampton, John, active 1577-1596. Translator

Penzer, N. M. (Norman Mosley), 1892-

Fernández de Santaellla, Rodrigo, active 1503. Translator

Marsden, William, 1754-1836. Translator

Pagio Bracciolini, Giovanni Francesco, 1380-1459.

John Shaw Billings Memorial Collection.

Research Call Number

*KP (Argonaut) (Polo, M. Most noble and famous travels of Marco Polo)