Author: YULE, SIR HENRY (Translator and editor) / CORDIER, HENRI:
Title: Cathay and the Way Thither. Being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China. New edition, Revised Throughout in the Light of Recent Discoveries by Henri Cordier. Volumes i-iii (of 4). Peking 1942-48.
Description: . Pp. xxiv, 318; xiv, 367; xvi, 270. With some plates and one folding map in pocket of volume two. Original printed wrappers, spines slightly chipped, back cover to volume two loosen. Comprises: 1. Preliminary essay on the intercourse between China and the Western Nations previous to the discovery of the Cape route; 2. Odoric of Pordenone; 3. Missionary friars, Rarshiduddin, Pegolotti, Marignolli. A reprint of an edition issued by the Hakluyt Society in 1915, 1913-16 (as second series no. xxviii). Cf Cordier BS 1951 (Vols. i-ii of the Hakluyt Society ed.).

Keywords: East Asia, china, KINA, CHINESE, CHINE, asia, asiatic, asien, asie, travel, exploration,


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