POLO, Marco; Nicolò de' Conti; John Frampton [Translator].
The Most Noble and Famous Travels of Marco Polo Together with the Travels of Nicolò de' Conti.
London: The Argonaut Press , 1929.
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The Argonaut Press Limited Edition of The Most Noble and Famous Travels of Marco Polo and Nicolò de' Conti; Translated by John Frampton
The Argonaut Press limited edition of Marco Polo and Nicolò de’ Conti’s travels through Asia and the Middle East. Octavo, bound in half-vellum over cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the spine, tissue-guarded frontispiece, title page vignette, illustrated with maps and paragraph initial decorations, and printed on Japon Vellum. One of 1,050 numbered copies, this is number 380. In near fine condition. Edited with introduction, notes, and appendixes by N.M. Penzer. From the Elizabethan translation of John Frampton. The original woodcut appearing on the title page is by William Monk, bookplate of Marion Wood to the front pastedown.
Italian navigator Christopher Columbus's expeditions inaugurated a period of exploration, conquest, and colonization that lasted for centuries, helping create the modern Western world. He led the first European expeditions to the Caribbean, Central America, and South America, initiating the permanent European colonization of the Americas, and discovered the first viable sailing route to the Americas, a continent that was then unknown to the Old World. Nicolò de’ Conti was a fifteenth-century Venetian merchant and traveler who spent over two decades journeying through the Middle East, India, and Southeast Asia, recording detailed accounts of the regions’ cultures, economies, and religions that later informed European geographic knowledge.
The Most Noble and Famous Travels of Marco Polo Together with the Travels of Nicolò de' Conti.
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