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.

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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.