Marco Polo: The Description of the World [with] Notes on Marco Polo [and] Quinsai: with other Notes on Marco Polo.

Together, Arthur Christopher Moule and Paul Pelliot produced the most enduring monuments of modern Marco Polo scholarship. Their 1938 Description of the World offered the first authoritative English edition, richly illustrated with maps and facsimiles and accompanied by a detailed critical apparatus. Moule’s later Quinsai with Other Notes on Marco Polo (1957) deepened the inquiry with focused studies, particularly on the celebrated city of Hangzhou, refining and expanding points raised in the earlier collaboration. Finally, Pelliot’s posthumously published Notes on Marco Polo (1959–1973) stands as the vast culmination of decades of research—an encyclopedic commentary unrivaled in scope and precision. Taken together, these three works form the essential scholarly trilogy on Marco Polo, uniting translation, focused analysis, and exhaustive annotation into a foundation still indispensable for the study of medieval Eurasian travel and exchange.