The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,335 pages of information about The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2.

The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,335 pages of information about The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2.

Engraved frontispiece.

Dedicatory Epistle, 3 ff. not numbered.

Andreae MUELLERI Greiffenhagii, in Marci Pauli Veneti Chorographiam,
Praefatio pp. 26.

Doctorum Virorum De hoc Marci Pauli Veneti Opere Testimonia, ac Judicia ... 
(Franciscus Pipinus, etc.) 8 ff. n. ch.

MARCI PAULI Veneti De Regionibus orientalibus Libri III, pp. 167.

Index primus Historicus, Sive alphabetica Recensio omnium eorum, quae Autor passim observavit, atque alias memoranda reliquit, 22 ff. not numbered.

Index secundus Chronographicus, qui Annos & cujuslibet anni NOTABILIA (quae quidem Autor designavit) continet, 1 page.

Index tertius Itineraries, Ubi Loca recensentur, quae auctor pertransiit, & Distanstantiae Locorum, quas ipse annotavit, 2 ff. not numbered.

Index quartus Glossarius, Estque vocum exoticarum, quas Autor ipse interpretatus est, 1 half p.

Emendanda in Marco Paulo Veneto, quaeq; ad hunc pertinent:  aut ad eadem Addenda, 1 f. not numbered.

HAITHONI Armeni || Historia ori-||entalis:  || Qvae eadem & De Tartaris ||
inscribitur.|| Anno || CIC.  ICC.  LXXI, 2 ff. not numbered + pp. 107.

[Errata] 2 pp. not numbered.

Index, 7 pp. not numbered.

Andreae MUELLERI, || Greiffenhagii, || DISQUISITIO || Geographica & Historica, || De || CHATAJA, || In Qua || I. Praecipue Geographorum nobilis || illa Controversia:  Quaenam CHATAJA sit, & an || sit idem ille terrarum tractus, quem Sinas, & vul-|| go Chinam vocant, aut pars ejus aliqua? || latissime tractatur; || 2.  Eadem vero opera pleraque rerum, quae unquam || de Chataja, deque Sinis memorabilia || fuerunt, atque etiam nunc sunt, compendiose || enarrantur. ||—­Ecclesiastae I. v. 15. ||:  [Hebrew] || Senec. de Beneficiis VI.  I. || Etiam quod discere supervacuum est prodest || cognoscere. ||—­Berolini, Typis Rungianis. || Anno M. DC.  LXX, 2 ff. not numbered + pp. 115 on 2 col.

C.—­ITALIAN EDITIONS.

14.—­1.  Marco Polo da Venie || sia de le merauegliose || cose del Mondo.

Below this title the mark of the printer SESSA:  a cat holding a mouse in its mouth with the initials I and B on the right and on the left of the coat of arms (with a ducal crown above) which exhibits this group, and S at foot.  Verso of f. 83: 

Finisse lo libro de Marco Polo da Venie || sia dele merauegliose cose del modo Im || presso in Venetia per zoanne Baptista || da Sessa Milanese del M. ccccxcvi. || adi. xiii. del mese de Iunio regna || do lo Illustrissimo Principe Au || gustino Barbadico inclyto || Duce di Venetia.

Recto of folio 84:  “Registro. a b c d e f g h i k l Tutti questi sono quaderni excepto l chie duerno”; audessous le monogramme de l’imprimeur en blanc sur fond noir.—­Verso of folio 84 is blank.

The copy which I have examined is in the Grenville Library, No. 6666.  It is in fine condition and complete, notwithstanding what the Sobolewski Sale Catalogue says to the contrary (No. 1730):  it is a small 8vo ff. 84; each quire containing, as is indicated by the register, eight sheets, except quire 1, which has but four.

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