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Bohn's Illustrated Library.

UNIFORM WITH THE STANDARD LIBRARY, AT 5s. PER VOLUME (EXCEPTING THOSE MARKED OTHERWISE).

Allen's Battles of the British Navy.

Numerous fine

Revised and enlarged. Portraits. In 2 vols. Andersen's Danish Legends and Fairy Tales. With many Tales not in any other edition. Translated by CAROLINE PEACHEY. 120 Wood Engravings, Ariosto's Orlando Furioso. In Eng

lish Verse. By W. S. ROSE. Twelve fine Engravings. In 2 vols.

Bechstein's Cage and Chamber Birds. Including Sweet's Warblers. Enlarged edition. Numerous plates.

**All other editions are abridged. With the plates coloured. 7s. 6d. Bonomi's Nineveh and its Palaces. New Edition, revised and considerably enlarged, both in matter and Plates, including a Full Account of the Assyrian Sculptures recently added to the National Collection. Upwards of 300 Engravings. Butler's Hudibras. With Variorum Notes, a Biography, and a General Index. Edited by HENRY G. BOHN. Thirty beautiful Illustrations.

; or, further illustrated with 62 Outline Portraits. In 2 vols. 10s. Cattermole's Evenings at Haddon Hall. 24 exquisite Engravings on Steel, from designs by himself, the Letterpress by the BARONESS DE CARABELLA. China, Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical, with some Account of Ava and the Burmese, Siam, and Anam. Nearly 100 Illustrations.

Craik's (G. L.) Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties, illustrated by Anecdotes and Memoirs. Revised Edition. With numerous Portraits.

Cruikshank's Three Courses and a Dessert. A Series of Tales, with 50 humorous Illustrations by Cruikshank. Dante. Translated by I. C. WRIGHT,

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Didron's History of Christian Art;

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Flaxman's Lectures on Sculpture.

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Gil Blas, The Adventures of. 24 Engravings on Steel, after Smirke, and 10 Etchings by George Cruikshank. (612 pages.) 6s.

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Howitt's (Mary) Pictorial Calendar of the Seasons. Embodying the whole of Aiken's Calendar of Nature. Upwards of 100 Engravings.

(Mary and William) Stories of English and Foreign Life. Twenty beautiful Engravings.

Hunt's (Leigh) Book for a Corner.

Eighty extremely beautiful Engravings. India, Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical, from the Earliest Times to the Present. Upwards of 100 fine Engravings on Wood, and a Map.

Jesse's Anecdotes of Dogs. New Edition, with large additions. Numerous fine Woodcuts after Harvey, Bewick, and others.

; or, with the addition of 34 highly-finished Steel Engravings after Cooper, Landseer, &c. 78. 6d. Kitto's Scripture Lands and Biblical Atlas. 24 Maps, beautifully engraved on Steel, with a Consulting Index.

; or, with the maps coloured,

78. 6d. Krummacher's Parables.

Translated from the German. Forty Illustrations by Clayton, engraved by Dalziel. Lindsay's (Lord) Letters on Egypt, Edom, and the Holy Land. New Edition, enlarged. Thirty-six beautiful Engrav ings, and 2 Maps.

Lodge's Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, with Memoirs. Two Hundred and Forty Portraits, beautifully engraved on Steel. 8 vols.

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TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO,

The Venetian.

THE TRANSLATION OF MARSDEN REVISED,

WITH A SELECTION OF HIS NOTES.

EDITED BY

THOMAS WRIGHT, ESQ. M.A. F.S.A. ETC.

CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE.

LONDON:

HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

1854.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

FROM THE LIBRARY OF

JOHN GRAHAM BROOKS

APRIL 25, 1939

LONDON:

R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD STREET HILL.

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CHAPTER XX.-Of the Town of Kobiam, and its Manufactures

CHAPTER XXI.-Of the Journey from Kobiam to the Province of Timochain on

the Northern confines of Persia-And of a particular Species of Tree

CHAPTER XXII.-Of the Old Man of the Mountain-Of his Palace and

Gardens of his Capture and his Death.

CHAPTER XXIII.-Of a fertile Plain of six Days' Journey, succeeded by a

Desert of eight, to be passed in the Way to the City of Sapurgan-Of the

excellent Melons produced there-And of the City of Balach

CHAPTER XXIV. Of the Castle named Thaikan-Of the Manners of the Inha-

bitants-And of Salt-Hills

CHAPTER XXV. Of the Town of Scassem, and of the Porcupines found there

CHAPTER XXVI.-Of the Province of Balashan-Of the Precious Stones found

there and which become the Property of the King-Of the Horses and the

Falcons of the Country-Of the salubrious Air of the Mountains-And of

the Dress with which the Women adorn their Persons

CHAPTER XXVII.-Of the Province of Bascià lying South of the former-Of

the golden Ornaments worn by the Inhabitants in their Ears-And of their

Manners

CHAPTER XXVIII.-Of the Province of Kesmur situated towards the south-

east-Of its Inhabitants who are skilled in Magic-Of their Communication

with the Indian Sea-And of a Class of Hermits, their Mode of Life, and

extraordinary Abstinence.

CHAPTER XXIX.-Of the Province of Vokhan-Of an Ascent for three Days,

leading to the Summit of a high Mountain-Of a peculiar Breed of Sheep

found there-Of the Effect of the great Elevation upon Fires-And of the

Savage Life of the Inhabitants

CHAPTER XXX.-Of the City of Kashcar, and of the Commerce of its Inha-

bitants

CHAPTER XXXI.-Of the City of Samarcan, and of the Miraculous Column in

the Church of St. John the Baptist

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