The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,230 pages of information about The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1.

The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,230 pages of information about The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1.

BOOK FIRST.

Coin of King HETUM I. and Queen ISABEL of Cilician Armenia.  From an original in the British Museum.  Engraved by ADENEY.

Castle of BAIBURT.  After Texier, L’Armenie, Pl. 3.

Mediaeval GEORGIAN FORTRESS.  From a drawing by Padre CRISTOFORO DI CASTELLI of the Theatine Mission, made in 1634, and now in the Communal Library at Palermo.  The name of the place has been eaten away, and I have not yet been able to ascertain it.

View of DERBEND.  After a cut from a drawing by M. Moynet in the Tour du Monde, vol. i.

Coin of BADRUDDIN LOLO of Mosul (A.H. 620).  After Marsden’s Numismata Orientalia, No. 164.  By ADENEY.

GHAZAN Khan’s Mosque at TABRIZ.  Borrowed from Fergusson’s History of Architecture.

KASHMIR SCARF with animals, etc.  After photograph from the scarf in the Indian Museum.

Humped Oxen from the Assyrian Sculptures at Kouyunjik.  From Rawlinson’s Ancient Monarchies.

Portrait of a Hazara.  From a Photograph, kindly taken for the purpose, by M.-Gen. C.  P. Keyes, C.B., Commanding the Panjab Frontier Force.

Illustrations of the use of the DOUBLE RUDDER in the Middle Ages. 7 figures, viz., No. 1, The Navicello of Giotto in the Porch of St. Peter’s.  From Eastlake’s H. of Painting; Nos. 2 and 3, from Pertz, Scriptores, tom. xviii. after a Genoese Chronicle; No. 4, Sketch from fresco of Spinello Aretini at Siena; No. 5, Seal of Port of Winchelsea, from Sussex Archaeological Collections, vol. i. 1848; No. 6, Sculpture on Leaning Tower at Pisa, after Jal, Archeologie Navale; No. 7, from the Monument of Peter Martyr, the persecutor of the Lombard Patarini, in the Church of St. Eustorgius at Milan, after Le Tombe ed i Monumenti Illustri d’Italia, Mil. 1822-23.

The ARBRE SEC, and ARBRES DU SOLEIL ET DE LA LUNE.  From a miniature in the Prose Romance of Alexander, in the Brit.  Museum MS. called the Shrewsbury Book (Reg. xv. e. 6).

The CHINAR or Oriental Plane, viz., that called the Tree of Godfrey of Boulogne at Buyukdere, near Constantinople.  Borrowed from Le Monde Vegetal of Figuier.

Portrait of H. H. AGHA KHAN MEHELATI, late representative of the OLD MAN of the MOUNTAIN.  From a photograph by Messrs. SHEPHERD and BOURNE.

Ancient SILVER PATERA of debased Greek Art, formerly in the possession of the Princes of BADAKHSHAN, now in the India Museum.

Ancient BUDDHIST Temple at Pandrethan in KASHMIR.  Borrowed from Fergusson’s History of Architecture.

Horns of the OVIS POLI, or Great Sheep of Pamir.  Drawn by the Editor from the specimen belonging to the Royal Asiatic Society.

Figure of the OVIS POLI or Great Sheep of Pamir.  From a drawing by Mr. Severtsof in a Russian publication.

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