The most noble and famous travels of Marco Polo : together with the travels of Nicolò de' Conti
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Type of record: Book
Title: The most noble and famous travels of Marco Polo : together with the travels of Nicolò de' Conti
Other titles: Il milione
Classmark: BC F Pr 2/POL
Creator(s): Polo, Marco (1254-1323?)
Additional creator(s): Conti, Niccolò de' (1395-1469) (Other); Ramusio, Giovanni Battista (1485-1557) (Other); Frampton, John (fl. 1577-1596) (Other); Penzer, N M (1892-1960) (Other); Argonaut Press (Other)
Related people: Conti, Niccolò de'; Ramusio, Giovanni Battista; Frampton, John; Penzer, N. M
Publisher: The Argonaut press
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1929
Language: English
Size and medium: lx, 381 p., 1 b
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/294658
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003321319705181
Description
"This edition... is the sixth publication of the Argonaut press and is limited to 1050 copies on Japon vellum, numbered 1 to 1050."
With reproduction of t.-p. of original edition.
Translated by Frampton from Rodrigo Fernández de Santaella y Córdoba's version of Marco Polo's Travels, and his translation of Conti's travels from 'De varietate fortunæ libri quatuor' by Poggio Bracciolini, 1503.
Appendix 2 contains extracts relating to Marco Polo's voyages from 'Navigationi et viaggi', vol. 2, 1559, by Giovanni Battista Ramusio, translated by William Marsden, 1818.
Contents: The travels of Marco Polo.--The travels of Nicolò dé Conti in the East.--Selected passages from Ramusio, &c.
Additional description
No. 365 of an edition of 1050 copies
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