![]() Centuries later, Scottish Orientalist Henry Yule's most important contribution was in clarifying Polo's routes by identifying and matching the medieval geographic place names used by Polo and his transcribers with their actual present-day locations and names. It is an adaptation of the Latin translation of Marco Polos Travels written between 13 by an Italian Dominican friar from Bologna called Francesco. 1300), a book that described to Europeans the wealth and great size of China, its capital Peking, and other Asian cities and countries. Venetian merchant and explorer Marco Polo's travels were first recorded in his Livre des merveilles du monde (Book of the Marvels of the World, also known as The Travels of Marco Polo, c. Bound in three quarters morocco with gilt tooling featuring naval vignettes and red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt to the spines, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers, with maps and engraved illustrations many folding and in color. ![]() $1,850.00 Item Number: 90447įirst edition of Yule’s important work which correlated Polo’s travels with their present-day locations. The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East. ![]()
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