Book Description

"Volume 1: The first volume in the revised edition of First Series 36 (1866) and 37 (1866). With numerous supplementary extracts from writers of the first to the sixteenth century. Volumes 2 and 3 appeared earlier (Second Series 33, 37), and volume 4 followed (Second Series 41). Volume 2: Volume 1 followed (Second Series 38). A revised edition of First Series 36 (1866) and 37 (1866) above, whose title page was followed. The appendix contains a Latin and an Italian text of Friar Odoric's travels in the early fourteenth century. Continued in Second Series 37 and 41 below. Volume 3: Volume 1 followed (Second Series 38). A revised edition of First Series 36 (1866) and 37 (1866). Letters and reports of missionary friars from Cathay and India, 1292-1338; Cathay under the Mongols, from Rashiduddin's history, c. 1300-1307; Pegolotti's notices of the land route to Cathay, c. 1330-40; and John d'Marignolli's recollections of eastern travel, 1338-53, taken from his 'Chronicle of Bohemia'. Follows on from volume 2 (Second Series 33); volume 4 is Second Series 41. Volume 4: Follows on from Second Series 33, 37, 38, being part of the revised edition of First Series 36 (1866) and 37 (1866). This volume covers Ibn Battuta's travels in Bengal and China, c. 1347, and the journey of Goës from Agra to Cathay, 1602-7, with an index to all four volumes."--Publisher's web site.