Volume II Part 98 (2/2)

--A Memoir of Marco Polo, the Venetian Traveller to Tartary and China [translated from the French of M.G. Pauthier]. (_Chin. & j.a.p. Rep._, Sept. & Oct. 1863.)

54.--9. Les Recits de Marco Polo citoyen de Venise sur l'histoire, les moeurs et les coutumes des Mongols, sur l'empire Chinois et ses merveilles; sur Gengis-Khan et ses hauts faits; sur le Vieux de la Montagne; le Dieu des idolatres, etc. Texte original francais du XIII'e siecle rajeuni et annote par Henri Bellenger. Paris, Maurice Dreyfous, s.d., 18mo, pp. iv-280.

55.--10. Le Livre de Marco Polo--Facsimile d'un ma.n.u.scrit du XIV'e siecle conserve a la Bibliotheque royale de Stockholm, 4to, 4 ff. n. c. for the t.i.tle ut supra and preface + 100 ff. n. c. [200 pages] of text facsimile.

We read on the verso of the t.i.tle-page: ”Photolithographie par l'Inst.i.tut lithographique de l'Etat-Major--Typographie par l'Imprimerie centrale--Stockholm, 1882.”--We learn from the preface by the celebrated A.E. Nordenskiold, that 200 copies, two of which on parchment have been printed. In the preface is printed a letter, Paris, 22nd Nov. 1881, written by M. Leopold Delisle, which shows that the Stockholm MS. belonged to the library of the King of France, Charles V. (who had five copies of Polo's Book) and had No. 317 in the Inventory of 1411; it belonged to the Louvre, to Solier of Honfleur, to Paul Petau when it was purchased by King Christina.

--Le ”Livre de Marco Polo.” Facsimile d'un ma.n.u.scrit du XIV'e siecle conserve a la Bibliotheque royale de Stockholm. Stockholm, 1882, in-4 (Signed: LeOPOLD DELISLE)--Nogent-le-Rotrou, imp. de Daupeley-Gouverneur.

[1882], pp. 8vo.

Extrait de la _Bibliotheque de l'ecole des Chartes_. t. xliii. 1882.--

This is a reprint of an article by M. Delisle in the _Bib. de l'ec. des Chartes_, xliii. 1882, pp. 226-235.--see also p. 434.--M.G. Raynaud has also given a notice of this edition of Stockholm in _Romania_, xl. 1882, pp. 429-430, and Sir Henry Yule, in _The Athenaeum_, 17th June, 1882, pp. 765-766.

--Il libro di Marco Polo facsimile d'un manoscritto del XIV secolo. Nota del prof. G. Pennesi. (_Bol. Soc. Geog. Ital._, 1882, pp. 949-950.)

--See MURET, Ernest, pp. 547 and 582.

G.--ENGLISH EDITIONS.

56.--1. The most n.o.ble || and famous trauels of || _Marcus Paulus, one_ || of the n.o.bilitie of the state of || Venice, into the East partes || of the world, as _Armenia, Per||sia, Arabia, Tartary_, with || many other kingdoms || and Prouinces. || No lesse pleasant, than || profitable, as appeareth || by the Table, or Contents || of this Booke. || Most necessary for all sortes || of Persons, and especially || for Trauellers. || _Translated into English_. || At London, || Printed by Ralph Nevvbery, || _Anno._ 1579. Small 4to. pp.

[28]+167+[1]. Sig. *-**** A-X.

Pp. 167 without the 28 first pages which contain the t.i.tle (2 p.), the epistle of the translator, Iohn Frampton (2 p.). Maister Rothorigo to the Reader: An introduction into Cosmographie (10 pages), the Table of the Chapters (6 p.). The Prologue (8 p.).

57.--2. The first Booke of Marcvs Pavlvs Venetvs, or of Master Marco Polo, a Gentleman of Venice, his Voyages. (Purchas, _His Pilgrimes_. London, Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, ... 1625, Lib. I.

Ch. 1111. pp. 65-108.)

After Ramusio.

58.--3. The Travels of Marco Polo, or Mark Paul, the Venetian, into Tartary, in 1272. (Astley's _Collection of Travels_, IV. pp. 580-619).

French translation in _l'Hist. Gen. des Voyages_.

59.--4. Harris's _Navigantium atque Itin. Bib._, ed. of 1715 and of 1744.

60.--5. The curious and remarkable Voyages and Travels of Marco Polo, a Gentleman of Venice who in the Middle of the thirteenth Century pa.s.sed through a great part of Asia, all the Dominions of the Tartars, and returned Home by Sea through the Islands of the East Indies. [Taken chiefly from the accurate Edition of Ramusio, compared with an original Ma.n.u.script in His Prussian Majesty's Library and with most of the Translations. .h.i.therto published.] (_Pinkerton_, VII. p. 101.)

61.--6. Marco Polo. Travels into China and the East, from 1260 to 1295.

(Robert Kerr, _A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels_.... Edinburgh, 1811-1824, vol. i.)

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