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RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 526 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 1.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Pur… Altro …

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 526 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 1.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: . . . dr. pp. iv, xvii, 68. 1863. The Travels of L. di Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia. . . Persia, India, and Ethiopia, A. d. 1503 to 150S. Translated. . . by J. W. Jones, . . and edited, with notes and an introduction, by G. P. Badger, dr. pp. cxxi, 820: 2 . Hakluyt Society. (Contd. ) Works issued by the Hakluyt Society. (Contd. ) No. 34. Narrative of the proceedings of Pediarias Davila in the provinces of Tierra Finne. . . and of the discovery of the South Sea and the coasts of Peru and Nicaragua. Written by the Adelantado P. de Andagoya. Translated and edited, with notes and an introduction, by C. R. Markbam. pp. xxix, 88: 1 map. 1865. 35. A description of the coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the beginning of the Sixteenth Century, by D. Bar-bosa. . . Translated from an early Spanish manuscript, with notes and a preface, by the Hon. H. Stanley. pp. xi, 336: 2 pis. 1866. 36, Cathay and the way thither; being a Collection of 37. medieval notices of China, translated and edited by H. Yule, dr. 2 Vol. continuously paged. 1866. I. Odoric of Pordenone. The eastern parts of the World described, dr. il. Letters and reports of missionary Friare from Cathay and India, in. Cathay under the Mongols. Extracted from Roshiduddin. IV. Pegolotti, F. B. Notices of the land route to Cathay, dr. V. John de Marignolliand his recollections of Eastern travel, vi. Ibn Batuta H travels in Bengal and China. 38. The three Voyages of M. Frobieher, in search of a passage to Cathaia and India, by the North-west, A. d. 1576-8. By Capt. G. Best. Reprinted from. . . Hakluyt Voyages. . . By Rear-Admiral R. Collinson, dr. pp. xxvi, 371: 1 pl. , 2 maps. 1867. 89. The Philippine Islands, Moluccas, Siani, Cambodia, Japan and China, at the close of t. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub, RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 532 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 1.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1745 Excerpt: . . . thousand citizens, commanded by a Maestro di Campo of their own, for all which, they have magazines of amunition, and c. and can as easily re-take the government into their hands, as they did unwisely part with it. Though they coin their money with the popes arms upon it, they also impale their own device of Liberia with it; and, as a further mark of liber-ty, they constantly maintain at Rome an embassador, but the legate lives in greater state amongst them, and at their charge too, having guards of horse and foot which continually attend him, and besides the charge of vice-legate and other officers, sends the pope yearly a hundred thousand crowns clear, which arises from impositions on salt and fish; the post and the secretary-office for senseless dispensations, and c. Their Trade. made by an English Gentleman, 1675. 421 Their chief trade and business is silk, that takes up sixty pound of iron, sjv. of which there is brought out of there In others little pagan gods of brass and own territories, to every fair, a million iron the head of Tiberius Csar in a and two hundred thousand pound weight, turquoise as big as an egg; statues of the besides two hundred thousand by strang-great dukes ancestors in porphry; a ers, all which is orderd in Bologna, and great ebbony cabinet set with stones, and employs thirty thousand people, and their hemp not less than twelve thousand besides little dogs, walh-balls, and sal-sicci, which are the best in the world. within it, the passion of our Saviour cut in ivory, by Mich. Angelo; a nail half gold, half iron; a lump of gold as twas dug without ore or refining; shells of Florence. Florence stands close under the Appen-. mother of pearl, with the pearls grow ing to them; an emerald in embrio, half stone, half. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<