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| The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1 |
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Citation Information
PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION
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quarters. The following works have proved of the
greatest assistance to me :—The articles of General
HOUTUM-SCHINDLER in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic
Society, and the excellent books of Lord CURZON and of
Major P. MOLESWORTH SYKES On Persia, M. GRENARD'S
account of DUTREUIL de RHINS' Mission to Central Asia,
BRETSCHNEIDER'S and PALLADIUS' remarkable papers on
Medieval Travellers and Geography, and above all, the
valuable books of the Hon. W. W. ROCKHILL on Tibet
and Rubruck, to which the distinguished diplomatist,
traveller, and scholar kindly added a list of notes
of the greatest importance to me, for which I offer him
my hearty thanks.
My thanks are also due to H.H. Prince ROLAND
BONAPARTE, who kindly gave me permission to reproduce
some of the plates of his Recueil de Documents de
l'Ej5ogue Mongole, to M. LÉOPOLD DELISLE, the learned
Principal Librarian of the Bibliothèque Nationale, who
gave me the opportunity to study the inventory made
after the death of the Doge Marino Faliero, to the
Count de SEMALLÉ, formerly French Chargé
d'Affaires at Peking, who gave me for reproduction a
number of photographs from his valuable personal
collection, and last, not least, my old friend Comm.
NICOLÔ BAROZZI, who continued to lend me the assistance
which he had formerly rendered to Sir Henry Yule at
Venice.
Since the last edition was published, more than
twenty-five years ago, Persia has been more thoroughly
studied ; new routes have been explored in Central
Asia, Karakorum has been fully described, and Western
and South-Western China have been opened up to our
knowledge in many directions. The results of these
investigations form the main features of this new edition
of Marco Polo. I have suppressed hardly any of Sir
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