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Cathay and the Way Thither. Being a collection of medieval Notices of China. ... Revised throughout in the light of recent discoveries by Henri Cordier. 4 vols complete.

YULE H. (Transl. and Ed. by).

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Stock No.: 217983
Published: 1998

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New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal (1998). 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjackets. With portrait plates and fold. map. Fine set. NOTE: With A Preliminary Essay On The Intercourse Between China And The Western Nations Previous To The Discovery Of The Cape Route. Containing the travels of Friar Odoric of Pordenone 1316-30 and letters and reports from missionary friars from Cathay and India 1292-1338 in English translation. With a list of 'illustrations from drawings by the author'. The supplementary material includes the 1866 annual report. Volume II: Contains contemporary notices of Cathay under the Mongols from Rashiduddin; Pegolotti's notices of the land route to Cathay and of Asiatic trade in the fourteenth century; Marignolli's recollections of eastern travel; Ibn Battuta's travels in Bengal and China; the journey of Benedict Go?®s from Agra to Cathay; all in English translation with Latin and Italian texts of Odoric's narrative.

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Published: 1998

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